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SOCIAL SECURITY Citation, commencement and interpretation 1 1 These Regulations may be cited as the Statutory Maternity Pay (General) (Modification and Amendment) Regulations 2000 and shall come into force on 17th November 2000. 2 In these Regulations— “the Contributions and Benefits Act ” means the Social Security Contributions and Benefits Act 1992; “the Statutory Maternity Pay Regulations ” means the Statutory Maternity Pay (General) Regulations 1986 . Modification of section 164(2)(a) of the Contributions and Benefits Act 2 Subject to regulation 4, in relation to a woman who is dismissed, or whose employment is otherwise terminated without her consent, after the beginning of the week immediately preceding the 14th week before the expected week of confinement, section 164(2)(a) of the Contributions and Benefits Act (conditions of entitlement to statutory maternity pay) shall be modified and have effect so that the words, “, wholly or partly because of pregnancy or confinement” shall not apply. Amendment of the Statutory Maternity Pay Regulations 3 1 Subject to regulation 4, the Statutory Maternity Pay Regulations shall be amended in accordance with the following paragraphs of this regulation. 2 In regulation 2 (the maternity pay period) — a in paragraph (1) for the words “Subject to paragraphs (3) to (5)” there shall be substituted the words “Subject to paragraphs (3) to (6)”; b in paragraph (4) for the words “Subject to paragraph (5)” there shall be substituted the words “Subject to paragraphs (5) and (6)”; and c after paragraph (5) there shall be added the following paragraph— 6 Where a woman is dismissed, or her employment is otherwise terminated without her consent, before the maternity pay period has started, but after the beginning of the 11th week before the expected week of confinement and not later than the week immediately following the week in which she is confined, the first week of the maternity pay period shall be the week after the week in which her employment ends. . 3 In regulation 23 (notice of absence from work) for paragraph (4) there shall be substituted the following paragraph— 4 Subject to paragraph (5), section 164(4) of the Contributions and Benefits Act (entitlement to statutory maternity pay dependent on notice to employer) shall not apply to a woman who leaves her employment with the person who will be liable to pay her statutory maternity pay after the beginning of the week immediately preceding the 14th week before the expected week of confinement, if she leaves because she is dismissed or if her employment is otherwise terminated without her consent. . Transitional provision 4 In relation to a woman whose expected week of confinement begins before 4th March 2001, the Contributions and Benefits Act and the Statutory Maternity Pay Regulations shall have effect as if these Regulations were not in force. Signed by authority of the Secretary of State for Social Security. Hugh Bayley Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State, Department of Social Security 23rd October 2000
LOCAL GOVERNMENT, ENGLAND Citation and interpretation 1 1 This Order may be cited as the Local Government Act 2000 (Commencement No. 4) Order 2000. 2 In this Order references to sections and Schedules are, unless otherwise specified, references to sections of, and Schedules to, the Local Government Act 2000. 3 This Order applies in relation to England only. Provisions coming into force on 26th October 2000 2 The following provisions shall come into force on 26th October 2000— a sections 14 to 16, 21, 24, 26, 29 and 102; b sections 11, 13, 22, 25, 27, 28, 31, 33 and 37, except in so far as already in force; c paragraphs 1 to 5 of Schedule 1 and section 23 to the extent that it relates to those paragraphs; d section 39, except subsection (3), and except in so far as already in force; e section 46 and Schedule 3; f paragraphs 1 to 7, 16 to 23, 29 and 33 of Schedule 5; g in Schedule 6, the repeal of the following provisions in the Local Authority Social Services Act 1970 — i section 2(2); ii in section 3(1), the words “(hereafter in this Act referred to as “social services functions”)”; and iii section 6(5); and h section 107 to the extent that it relates to the paragraphs and repeals referred to in paragraphs (f) and (g) of this article. Signed by authority of the Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions Hilary Armstrong Minister of State, Department of the Environment, Transport and the Regions 19th October 2000
HIGHWAYS, ENGLAND 1 This Scheme may be cited as the Cribbs Causeway—Easton-in-Gordano Special Roads Scheme 1964 (Variation) Scheme 2000 and shall come into force on 18th December 2000. 2 The Cribbs Causeway—Easton-in-Gordano Special Roads Scheme 1964 is hereby varied as follows: 1 omit paragraph 2(b) of Part II of Schedule 1 to that Scheme; 2 for paragraph 2(a) of Part II of Schedule 1 to that Scheme, substitute— a separate track and footway (together with suitable means of entry from and exit to existing highways) for the use of traffic of Classes VI , VII , IX , X and XI of the Classes of Traffic. Signed by authority of the Secretary of State for Environment, Transport and the Regions Bob Bannon Divisional Director Highways Agency 16th October 2000
LOCAL GOVERNMENT, ENGLAND Citation and interpretation 1 1 This Order may be cited as the Local Government Act 2000 (Commencement No. 3) Order 2000. 2 In this Order references to sections and Schedules are, unless otherwise specified, references to sections of, and Schedules to, the Local Government Act 2000. 3 This Order applies in relation to England only. Provisions coming into force on 18th October 2000 2 The following provisions shall come into force on 18th October 2000— a sections 1 to 9; b in Schedule 6, the repeal— i in section 25(8) of the Local Government (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 1976 , of the words from “Without prejudice” to “inhabitants of its area)”; ii in section 13 of the Inner Urban Areas Act 1978 , of the words “section 137(1) of the Local Government Act 1972 or”; iii of section 11A(4) of the Housing Act 1985 ; and iv of sections 34 and 35 of the Local Government and Housing Act 1989 ; and c section 107(2) to the extent that it relates to the repeals referred to in paragraph (b) of this article. Signed by authority of the Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions Hilary Armstrong Minister of State, Department of the Environment, Transport and the Regions 16th October 2000
OFFSHORE INSTALLATIONS Citation and commencement 1 This order may be cited as the Offshore Installations (Safety Zones) (No. 3) Order 2000 and shall come into force on 6th November 2000. Establishment of safety zones 2 A safety zone is hereby established around each installation specified in column 1 of the Schedule hereto (being an installation stationed in waters to which subsection (7) of section 21 of the Act applies) having a radius of five hundred metres from the point as respects that installation which has the co-ordinates of latitude and longitude according to European Datum (1950) specified in columns 2 and 3 of the Schedule. Signed by authority of the Secretary of State Whitty Parliamentary Under Secretary of State, Department of the Environment, Transport and the Regions 16th October 2000
PENSIONS Citation, commencement and interpretation 1 1 These Regulations may be cited as the Local Government Pension Scheme (Merseyside Transport Limited) Regulations 2000 and shall come into force on 10th November 2000. 2 In these Regulations— “ MTL Gilmoss ” means MTL (Gilmoss) Limited, a company incorporated on 11th May 2000 with company number 3990677; “the principal Regulations ” means the Local Government Pension Scheme Regulations 1997 ; “the transfer date” means the date on which the transferred undertaking is transferred to MTL Gilmoss; “the transferred undertaking” means the undertaking referred to in regulation 2(1)(b); “transferring employees” means persons to whom regulation 2(1) applies. 3 Unless the context otherwise requires, expressions which are also used in the principal Regulations have the same meaning in these Regulations as they have in those Regulations. Employees of MTL Gilmoss 2 1 This paragraph applies to a person— a who is a member, or entitled to be a member, of the Scheme immediately before the transfer date, and b whose employment transfers from Merseyside Transport Limited to MTL Gilmoss on the transfer date by reason of the transfer by Merseyside Transport Limited to MTL Gilmoss of its undertaking of supplying bus services from a bus depot at Gilmoss, in Liverpool. 2 Wirral Borough Council may make an admission agreement with MTL Gilmoss in respect of the transferring employees. 3 Such an admission agreement shall be treated for the purposes of the principal Regulations as an admission agreement made under regulation 5 and the principal Regulations shall apply to employment with MTL Gilmoss in which a transferring employee is an active member in the same way as if MTL Gilmoss were a Scheme employer. Leaving the Scheme 3 If a transferring employee ceases to be employed by MTL Gilmoss in the transferred undertaking— a he ceases to be eligible for membership of the Scheme as an admission agreement employee by reason of such employment; and b for the purposes of the Scheme, he is treated as leaving local government employment. Signed by authority of the Secretary of State Beverley Hughes Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State, Department of the Environment, Transport and the Regions 16th October 2000
EDUCATION, ENGLAND Citation and commencement 1 These Regulations may be cited as the Education (School Performance Information) (England) (Amendment No. 3) Regulations 2000 and shall come into force on 8th November 2000. Amendment 2 The Education (School Performance Information) (England) Regulations 1999 shall be amended as follows. 3 At the beginning of regulation 14 there shall be inserted the words “Subject to regulation 15”. 4 After regulation 14 there shall be added the following regulation— Treatment of registered pupils at the end of the final year of the second key stage whose first language is not English 15 1 In the circumstances set out in paragraph (2) below, an authority shall publish the information required by regulation 14(2), (3) and (3A) in accordance with paragraph (3) below (information in respect of those registered pupils at or near the end of the second key stage excluding pupils whose first language is not English). 2 The circumstances referred to in paragraph (1) are where the Secretary of State, on application from the school in question, has directed the authority, for the purposes set out in paragraph (3), not to count registered pupils at that school whose first language is not English, as defined for the purpose of this regulation in paragraph (4). 3 An authority shall not count registered pupils whose first language is not English when— a under regulation 14(2)(a), publishing information about the number of registered pupils at or near the end of the final year of the second key stage; b under regulation 14(2)(b), determining whether a school has eleven or more registered pupils at or near the end of the final year of the second key stage; c under regulation 14(2)(b)(i) and (ii), publishing information about the percentages of registered pupils at or near the end of the final year of the second key stage; d under paragraph 8 of Schedule 6 , publishing information about the number of registered pupils at or near the end of the final year of the second key stage who have special educational needs; e under regulation 14(3A) , publishing information about the number of registered pupils at or near the end of the final year of the second key stage who have special educational needs determined under paragraph 8 of Schedule 6 expressed as the percentage of the number of registered pupils at or near the end of the final year of the second key stage. 4 For the purposes of this regulation, a pupil whose first language is not English is a registered pupil who— a first became a registered pupil at a school in England on or after the start of the school year immediately preceding the reporting school year; b prior to first becoming such a pupil, was resident outside the United Kingdom; and c has a first language other than English. . 5 For Schedule 8 (form in which information is to be published by local education authorities) there shall be substituted the Schedule set out in the Schedule to these Regulations. Jacqui Smith Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State, Department for Education and Employment 17th October 2000
EDUCATION, ENGLAND AND WALES 1 These Regulations may be cited as the Education (Mandatory Awards) Regulations 2000 (Amendment) Regulations 2000 and shall come into force on 7th November 2000. 2 The Education (Mandatory Awards) Regulations 2000 shall be amended as follows. 3 In paragraph 14(1)(b) and (3) of Schedule 2 insert after the words “city college for the technology of the arts” the words “or a city academy ”. 4 In paragraph 1(1)(c) of Schedule 3 insert at the end the words “or under section 65(3) of the Further and Higher Education Act 1992 ”. Tessa Blackstone, Minister of State, Department for Education and Employment 16th October 2000
LEGAL AID AND ADVICE, ENGLAND AND WALES Citation and commencement 1 These Regulations may be cited as the Legal Aid in Criminal and Care Proceedings (General) (Amendment) (No. 5) Regulations 2000 and shall come into force on 18th October 2000. Amendment of the Legal Aid in Criminal and Care Proceedings (General) Regulations 1989 2 In regulation 48(13)(c) of the Legal Aid in Criminal and Care Proceedings (General) Regulations 1989 , before “a High Court judge” there shall be inserted “the registrar,”. Signed by authority of the Lord Chancellor David Lock Parliamentary Secretary Lord Chancellor’s Department Dated 16th October 2000
LAND DRAINAGE 1 This Order may be cited as the Amalgamation of the Alford, Louth and Skegness District Internal Drainage Districts Order 2000 and shall, unless subject to special parliamentary procedure, come into force on the date of its confirmation by the Minister, in accordance with paragraph 5(1) of Schedule 3 to the 1991 Act. 2 The Scheme is hereby confirmed. 3 The expenses of the Minister in connection with the making and confirmation of this Order shall be borne by the Environment Agency. In witness whereof the Official Seal of the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food is hereunto affixed on 25th August 2000. J. R. Park Assistant Secretary
JUDICIAL COMMITTEE 1 This Order may be cited as the Judicial Committee (Chiropractors Rules) Order 2000 and shall come into force on 10th November 2000. 2 The Rules set out in the Schedule to this Order shall take effect for the purpose of regulating appeals to Her Majesty in Council under the Chiropractors Act 1994. A. K. Galloway Clerk of the Privy Council
TELECOMMUNICATIONS 1 This Order may be cited as the Public Telecommunication System Designation (Alpha Telecom (UK) Ltd) Order 2000 and shall come into force on 23rd November 2000. 2 Each of the Applicable Systems is hereby designated as a public telecommunication system. Patricia Hewitt, Minister of State for Small Business and E Commerce, Department of Trade and Industry 18th October 2000
EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES Citation, commencement and interpretation 1 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Designation of the National Assembly for Wales 2 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Designation of Northern Ireland Ministers and Northern Ireland departments 3 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Revocation 4 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
MAGISTRATES' COURTS, ENGLAND AND WALES Citation, commencement and interpretation 1 1 These Regulations may be cited as the Greater London Magistrates' Courts Authority (Financial Administration) Regulations 2000 and shall come into force on 6th November 2000. 2 In these Regulations, “the Authority” means the Greater London Magistrates' Courts Authority referred to in section 30A(1) of the Justices of the Peace Act 1997 . Financial administration 2 Part VIII (financial administration) of the Local Government Finance Act 1988 shall apply to the Authority as if— a the Authority were a relevant authority for the purposes of that Part; b references to “the commencement day” were references to 1st April 2001; c the Authority were an authority mentioned in section 112(2) ; d in section 112(1), after the words “financial affairs” there were added the words “in accordance with section 59D(3)(b) of the Justices of the Peace Act 1997 ”; e in section 114(3A) , for paragraphs (a) and (b) there were substituted the words “with the justices' chief executive for the Greater London Magistrates' Courts Authority”; f in section 115(4), for the words “Section 101 of the 1972 Act” there were substituted the words “Section 30C(1) and (2) of the Justices of the Peace Act 1997 ”. Signed by the authority of the Lord Chancellor Jane Kennedy Parliamentary Secretary Lord Chancellor’s Department Dated 12th October 2000
BETTING, GAMING AND LOTTERIES 1 1 This Order may be cited as the Gaming Act (Variation of Monetary Limits) (No. 2) Order 2000 and shall come into force on 13th November 2000. 2 This Order extends to Scotland. 2 1 The provisions of section 41 of the Gaming Act 1968 (gaming at entertainments not held for private gain) specified in column 1 of the Schedule to this Order (which relate to the maximum sums permitted in respect of the matters mentioned in column 2 of that Schedule) shall have effect as if, for the sums specified in those provisions, there were substituted the sums specified in column 3 of that Schedule. 2 Paragraph (1) above shall have effect only in relation to entertainments held on or after the date on which this Order comes into force. 3 The Gaming Act (Variation of Monetary Limits) (No. 3) Order 1992 and the Gaming Act (Variation of Monetary Limits) (Scotland) (No. 2) Order 1992 are hereby revoked. Mike O'Brien Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State Home Office 11th October 2000
BETTING, GAMING AND LOTTERIES 1 1 This Order may be cited as the Gaming (Small Charges) Order 2000 and shall come into force on 13th November 2000. 2 This Order extends to Scotland. 2 For the purposes of section 40(2) of the Gaming Act 1968— a in the case of gaming which consists exclusively of playing bridge or whist, or bridge and whist, and takes place on a day on which the premises used therefor are not used for any other gaming, or for any other gaming except gaming by means of a machine to which Part III of that Act applies, the sum of £15; and b in any other case, the sum of 60p; is hereby specified. 3 The following Orders are hereby revoked— a the Gaming (Small Charges) Order 1992 ; b the Gaming (Small Charges) (Scotland) Order 1992 ; c the Gaming (Small Charges) (Amendment) Order 1995 ; and d the Gaming (Small Charges) (Scotland) Variation Order 1995 . Mike O'Brien Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State, Home Office 11th October 2000
PREVENTION AND SUPPRESSION OF TERRORISM Citation 1 This Order may be cited as the Terrorism Act 2000 (Commencement No. 1) Order 2000. Commencement 2 The following provisions of the Terrorism Act 2000 shall come into force on 12th October 2000: a section 99 (police and army powers: code of practice); b in section 101 (codes of practice: supplementary), subsections (1) to (5); c in Part I of Schedule 8 (treatment of persons detained under section 41 or Schedule 7), i paragraph 3, and ii in paragraph 4, sub-paragraphs (1) to (5); d in Schedule 14 (exercise of officers' powers), i paragraph 1; ii in paragraph 6, sub-paragraphs (1) and (4), and iii paragraph 7. Jack Straw One of Her Majesty’s Principal Secretaries of State Home Office 10th October 2000
CHILDREN AND YOUNG PERSONS, ENGLAND Citation, interpretation and extent 1 1 This Order may be cited as the Care Standards Act 2000 (Commencement No. 1 (England) and Transitional Provisions) Order 2000. 2 In this Order, unless the context otherwise requires— “ the Act ” means the Care Standards Act 2000; “the 1989 Act ” means the Children Act 1989 ; a “small children’s home” means a home within the meaning of section 63 of the 1989 Act, which provides (or usually provides or is intended to provide) care and accommodation for not more than three children at any one time. 3 This Order extends to England only. Appointed Days 2 1 For the purposes only of enabling an application for registration to be made under sub-paragraphs (1) and (2) of paragraph 1 of Schedule 6 to the 1989 Act, 15th October 2000 is the day appointed for the coming into force of section 40 (temporary extension of meaning of “children’s home”) of the Act. 2 1st January 2001 is the day appointed for the coming into force of the following provisions of the Act— a section 40 in so far as it is not already in force, and section 41 (temporary provision about cancellation of registration); and b section 116 (minor and consequential amendments), in so far as it relates to sub-paragraph (15) of paragraph 14 of Schedule 4 to the Act. Transitional Provisions 3 1 Where a person carrying on a small children’s home has before 1st January 2001 duly made an application for registration under sub-paragraphs (1) and (2) of paragraph 1 of Schedule 6 to the 1989 Act, the following paragraphs of this article apply. 2 Section 63(1) and (10) of the 1989 Act shall not apply to him— a until such time as the application is granted, either unconditionally or subject to such conditions as are mentioned in paragraph (3); or b if the application is granted subject to conditions other than such as are mentioned in paragraph (3), or refused— i if no appeal is brought, until the expiration of 28 days after service of notice of the local authority’s decision; and ii if an appeal is brought, until it is determined or abandoned. 3 The conditions are— a such conditions (if any) of the type mentioned in paragraph 5(2) of Schedule 6 to the 1989 Act (agreed conditions); or b a condition that no more than three children may be accommodated and cared for in the home. 4 Paragraphs 1(9) and 7(3) of Schedule 6 to the 1989 Act shall not apply to the application. Signed by authority of the Secretary of State for Health. John Hutton Minister of State, Department of Health 9th October 2000
INVESTIGATORY POWERS Citation and commencement 1 These Regulations may be cited as the Regulation of Investigatory Powers (Cancellation of Authorisations) Regulations 2000, and shall come into force on 6th November 2000. Performance of duty to cancel 2 1 Where any duty imposed by section 45 of the Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act 2000 would otherwise fall on a person who is no longer available to perform it, that duty is to be performed by— a the person, if any, appointed for the purpose of these Regulations in accordance with paragraph (2); b where no such person has been appointed, the person, if any, who holds the same office, rank or position in the same public authority as was held by the person who is no longer available and who has taken over that person’s responsibilities or most of them. 2 The person making an appointment for the purpose of these Regulations, and the person appointed, must each be a person holding the same office, rank or position (or a more senior one) in the same public authority as was held by the person who is no longer available. Charles Clarke Minister of State Home Office 10th October 2000