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CRIMINAL LAW, ENGLAND AND WALES Citation and commencement 1 These Regulations may be cited as the Knives (Forfeited Property) Regulations 1997 and shall come into force on 1st September 1997. Interpretation 2 In these Regulations, “museum or similar institution” means any institution which has as its purpose, or one of its purposes, the preservation and display of material of historical, aesthetic or technical interest to which the public are given access. “the relevant authority” means in relation to a police area in England and Wales listed in Schedule 1 to the Police Act 1996 or the City of London police area, the police authority (within the meaning of that Act); in relation to the metropolitan police district, the Receiver for the Metropolitan Police District; in relation to Scotland, a police authority (within the meaning given by section 2(1), as read with section 19(9)(a), of the Police (Scotland) Act 1967 ) for the area for which the police force is maintained; “the 1997 Act ” means the Knives Act 1997. Property to which Regulations apply 3 1 Subject to paragraph (2) below, these Regulations apply to property which is in the possession of the police by virtue of a forfeiture order under section 6 of the 1997 Act and in respect of which— a no application under section 7(3) of the 1997 Act has been made before the end of the period of 6 months beginning with the date on which the forfeiture order was made; or b no such application has succeeded. 2 Where, within the period specified in paragraph (1) above, an application by a claimant of the property has been made under section 7(3) of the 1997 Act or the person upon whose conviction the court ordered the forfeiture of the property under section 6 of that Act has appealed against the conviction or sentence, these Regulations shall not apply to the property until that application or appeal has been determined. Disposal of property 4 1 Subject to paragraph (2) below, property to which these Regulations apply shall be destroyed. 2 Where the relevant authority are satisfied that property to which these Regulations apply which would otherwise fall to be destroyed is of particular rarity, aesthetic quality or technical or historical interest, they may, instead of arranging for its destruction, give or sell it to a museum or similar institution. 3 The proceeds of disposals under these Regulations (if any) shall be paid to the relevant authority and a in relation to authorities in England and Wales shall be subject to the regulations governing the application of the proceeds of sale of property made under section 2 of the Police (Property) Act 1897 ; and b in relation to authorities in Scotland shall vest in the relevant authority. Alun Michael Minister of State Home Office 25th July 1997
HIGHWAYS, ENGLAND AND WALES 1 This Order may be cited as the Dartford–Thurrock Crossing Tolls Order 1997 and shall, in accordance with section 17(11) of the Dartford–Thurrock Crossing Act 1988, come into force on 1st September 1997. 2 1 The toll leviable in respect of each of the classes of vehicles set out in column (1) of the Schedule to this Order shall be of the amount set out or described opposite thereto in column (2) of that Schedule. 2 For the purposes of determining the class of vehicles to which a trailer belongs, a trailer which, when being drawn, is attached to the vehicle drawing it by partial superimposition shall be regarded as part of the vehicle drawing it and not as a separate vehicle. 3 The Dartford–Thurrock Crossing Tolls Order 1996 is hereby revoked. Signed by authority of the Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions Helene Hayman Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State, Department of the Environment, Transport and the Regions 30th July 1997
ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION Citation and commencement 1 These Regulations may be cited as the Genetically Modified Organisms (Deliberate Release and Risk Assessment-Amendment) Regulations 1997 and shall come into force on 25th August 1997. Amendment of Regulations — Deliberate Release 2 1 The Genetically Modified Organisms (Deliberate Release) Regulations 1992 are amended as follows. 2 In paragraph (1) of regulation 10 (consent to market products) there is added at the end the following subparagraph— e the marketing of a novel food or novel food ingredient within the scope of Regulation ( EC ) No 258/97 of the European Parliament and of the Council . 3 For Schedule 2 to the Genetically Modified Organisms (Deliberate Release) Regulations 1992 there is substituted the Schedule 2 set out in the Schedule to these Regulations. Amendment of Regulations — Risk Assessment 3 In paragraph (2) of regulation 3 of the Genetically Modified Organisms (Risk Assessment) (Records and Exemptions) Regulations 1996 , there is added at the end the following sub-paragraph— e are or are contained in a novel food or novel food ingredient which is authorised for marketing in accordance with the provisions of Regulation (EC) No 258/97 of the European Parliament and of the Council . Signed by authority of the Secretary of State for the Environment Michael Meacher Minister of State, Department of the Environment, Transport and the Regions 28th July 1997 Jeff Rooker Minister of State, Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food 29th July 1997 Signed by authority of the Secretary of State for the Welsh Office Win Griffiths Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State, Welsh Office 30th July 1997 Sewel Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State, Scottish Office 30th July 1997
HOUSING, ENGLAND AND WALES Citation and commencement 1 These Regulations may be cited as the Allocation of Housing (Reasonable and Additional Preference) Regulations 1997 and shall come into force on 1st November 1997. Further descriptions of people to whom reasonable preference is to be given 2 The following are specified as further descriptions of people to whom reasonable preference is to be given in the allocation scheme of a local housing authority— a people owed a duty by that authority under section 193 or 195(2) of the Housing Act 1996 (“the 1996 Act ”) or section 65(2) or 68(2) of the Housing Act 1985 (main housing duties owed to homeless persons), b people in respect of whom that authority are exercising their power under section 194 of the 1996 Act (power to secure accommodation after minimum period of duty under section 193 of that Act), and c people— i who have within the previous two years been provided with advice and assistance by that authority under section 197(2) of the 1996 Act (duty where other suitable accommodation available) or ii who are occupying accommodation secured with such advice and assistance. Descriptions of people to whom additional preference is to be given 3 In section 167(2) of the Housing Act 1996 (priorities in allocating housing accommodation), in the second sentence, the words “consisting of someone with a particular need for settled accommodation on medical or welfare grounds” are repealed. Signed by authority of the Secretary of State for the Environment Hilary Armstrong Minister of State, Department of the Environment, Transport and the Regions 29th July 1997 Signed by authority of the Secretary of State for Wales Win Griffiths Parliamentary Under Secretary of State, Welsh Office 30th July 1997
HOUSING, ENGLAND AND WALES Citation, commencement and interpretation 1 1 These Regulations may be cited as the Housing (Prescribed Forms) (Amendment) (No. 2) Regulations 1997 and shall come into force on 28th August 1997. 2 In these Regulations, “the principal Regulations ” means the Housing (Prescribed Forms) (No. 2) Regulations 1990 and a reference to a numbered form in the Schedule to these Regulations is a reference to the form bearing that number in the Schedule to the principal Regulations. Amendment of Principal Regulations 2 The forms set out in the Schedule to the principal Regulations shall be amended as set out in the Schedule to these Regulations. Signed by authority of the Secretary of State Nick Raynsford Parliamentary Under Secretary of State, Department of the Environment 24th July 1997 Signed by authority of the Secretary of State for Wales Win Griffiths Parliamentary Under Secretary of State, Welsh Office 30th July 1997
FAMILY LAW 1 1 This Order may be cited as the Children (Allocation of Proceedings) (Amendment) Order 1997 and shall come into force on 1st September 1997 except for articles 2 to 4 which shall come into force on 1st October 1997. 2 In this Order, an article or Schedule referred to by number means the article or Schedule so numbered in the Children (Allocation of Proceedings) Order 1991 . 2 After article 9(3) there shall be inserted the following new paragraph— 4 This article shall apply (with the necessary modifications) to proceedings brought under Parts I and II as it applies where a magistrates' court refuses to transfer proceedings under article 7. . 3 Article 11 shall stand as paragraph (1) of that article and, after it, there shall be inserted the following new paragraph— 2 Paragraph (1) shall apply (with the necessary modifications) to proceedings under Parts I and II brought in, or transferred to, a county court as it applies to proceedings transferred to a county court under article 7(1). . 4 For article 20 there shall be substituted the following— Lambeth, Shoreditch and Woolwich County Courts 20 Notwithstanding articles 14, 16 and 17, an application for an order under section 4 or 8 or under the Adoption Act 1976 may be made to and tried in Lambeth, Shoreditch or Woolwich County Court. . 5 In Schedule 1, under the heading “ Western Circuit ”, after “Portsmouth County Court”, there shall be inserted “Salisbury County Court”. 6 In Schedule 2, under the heading “ Western Circuit ”, in column (ii), for “Bournemouth County Court” where it appears opposite Salisbury Petty Sessions Area, there shall be substituted “Swindon County Court”. Irvine of Lairg, C. Dated 28th July 1997
FAMILY PROCEEDINGS 1 This Order may be cited as the Family Proceedings Fees (Amendment) (No. 3) Order 1997 and shall come into force on 1st October 1997. 2 For Fee No. 1(c) in the Schedule to the Family Proceedings Fees Order 1991 there shall be substituted the following— c on making an application for a non-molestation order or an occupation order under Part IV of the Family Law Act 1996 (Family Homes and Domestic Violence) £30 Only one fee is payable where an application is made for a non-molestation order and an occupation order at the same time . Irvine of Lairg, C. Dated 29th July 1997 We concur, Bob Ainsworth Graham Allen Two of the Lords Commissioners of Her Majesty’s Treasury Dated 30th July 1997
ECCLESIASTICAL LAW, ENGLAND 1 The Table of Parochial Fees set forth in Part I of the Schedule to this Order is hereby established and contains particulars of the parochial fees which, subject to the provisions of section 3 of the said Measure, are to be payable to the persons therein named in relation to the respective matters therein specified. 2 Part II of the said Schedule shall apply in relation to the said parochial fees. 3 In the Schedule to this Order, unless the context otherwise requires– “burial” includes deposit in a vault and the interment or deposit of cremated remains; “Chancellor” means the judge of the consistory or commissary court of the bishop or archbishop of the diocese; “incumbent” means the incumbent of any benefice as defined by the Interpretation Measure 1925 ; “churchyard” includes the curtilage of a church and a burial ground of a church whether or not immediately adjoining such church; “cemetery” means a burial ground maintained by a burial authority; “monument” includes a headstone, cross, kerb, border, vase, chain, railing, tablet, flatstone, tombstone or monument or tomb of any other kind. 4 The Parochial Fees Order 1996 is hereby revoked. 5 This Order may be cited as the Parochial Fees Order 1997 and shall come into operation on the 1st January 1998. The draft of this Order wasapproved by the General Synodof the Church of Englandon the 11th day of July 1997 P. J. C. Mawer Secretary General THE COMMON SEAL of the ChurchCommissioners was hereuntoaffixed this 15th day of July 1997 P. Locke Secretary
POLICE Citation and commencement 1 This Order may be cited as the Electronic Fingerprinting etc. Device Approval (Scotland) Order 1997 and shall come into force on 8th August 1997. Device approved 2 For the purpose of creating such records as are mentioned in paragraph (d) of section 18(7A) of the Criminal Procedure (Scotland) Act 1995 (record of a person’s skin on an external part of the body), the device known as the Digital Biometrics Incorporation (DBI) Tenprinter 1133S, with palmprint option, is hereby approved. Henry McLeish Minister of State, Scottish Office St Andrew’s House, Edinburgh 1st August 1997
ECCLESIASTICAL LAW, ENGLAND 1 The fees appearing in the Tables of the Schedule to this Order are established and are substituted for the fees appearing in the Tables of the Schedule to the Ecclesiastical Judges and Legal Officers (Fees) Order 1996 . The Tables of the Schedule contain particulars of the fees which are to be received, after the commencement of this Order, by the ecclesiastical judges and legal officers named in the Schedule for carrying out by them of the duties of their offices specified in the Schedule. 2 The Ecclesiastical Judges and Legal Officers (Fees) Order 1996 is hereby revoked. 3 a Subject to the provisions of this paragraph nothing in this Order shall preclude a diocesan board of finance from agreeing to pay an additional fee to a diocesan registrar by way of annual fee or retainer (hereinafter called a “supplementary annual fee”) which is in addition to the annual fee or fees prescribed by Order made under the Ecclesiastical Fees Measure 1986. b An agreement made under sub-paragraph (a) above shall be expressed to be an agreement for a payment by way of supplementary annual fee. c An agreement made under sub-paragraph (a) above shall be in writing. The period for which the agreement is to run shall be stated in the agreement. In the absence of any such statement the agreement shall remain binding until determined by not less than three months' notice on either side. d The body responsible for paying a supplementary annual fee shall be the diocesan board of finance. 4 A fee specified in the Schedule to this Order shall be increased by a sum for reasonable expenses of travel, subsistence, accommodation and the holding of court hearings. 5 Where Value Added Tax is chargeable in respect of the provision of any service for which a fee is prescribed in this Order there shall be payable in addition to that fee the amount of the Value Added Tax. 6 This Order may be cited as the Ecclesiastical Judges and Legal Officers (Fees) Order 1997 and shall come into operation on the first day of January 1998. Dated this 19th day of May 1997 R B Gibson M J Colman C A McLintock G F Tattersall D J V Wright Approved by the General Synod the 11th day of July 1997 P J C Mawer Secretary-General
ECCLESIASTICAL LAW, ENGLAND 1 The Fees appearing in the Schedule to this Order are established. The Tables of the Schedule contain particulars of the Annual Fees which are to be received, after the commencement of this Order, by the legal officers named in Table I of the Schedule (hereinafter referred to as “Table I”) in respect of the carrying out by them of the duties of their offices specified in the Appendix hereto (hereinafter referred to as “the Appendix”) and by the legal officers named in Table II of the Schedule in respect of the carrying out by them of the duties of their offices. 2 The Fees established and set out in the second column of Table I of the Schedule are to paid by the diocesan board of finance. The Fees established and set out in the third column of Table I and in Table II of the Schedule are the liability of the diocesan bishop or archbishop, subject to the provisions of section 8 of the Ecclesiastical Fees Measure 1986. 3 The Legal Officers (Annual Fees) Order 1996 is hereby revoked. 4 The diocesan registrar shall perform the duties and provide the professional services set forth in the Appendix in consideration of the annual fee set out in Table I to this Order for his diocese and shall not be entitled to receive any other remuneration for such duties or services save as provided by this Order. 5 a Subject to the provisions of this paragraph nothing in this Order shall preclude a diocesan board of finance from agreeing to pay an additional fee to a diocesan registrar by way of annual fee or retainer (hereinafter called a “supplementary annual fee”) which is in addition to the annual fee payable under Table I. b An agreement made under sub-paragraph (a) above shall be expressed to be an agreement for a payment by way of supplementary annual fee. c An agreement made under sub-paragraph (a) above shall be in writing. The period for which the agreement is to run shall be stated in the agreement. In the absence of any such statement the agreement shall remain binding until determined by not less than three months' notice on either side. d The body responsible for paying a supplementary annual fee shall be the diocesan board of finance. 6 A fee specified in the Schedule to this Order shall be increased by a sum for reasonable expenses of travel subsistence and accommodation. 7 Where Value Added Tax is chargeable in respect of the provision of any service for which a fee is prescribed in this Order (including any fee specified in paragraph 4 of the Appendix) there shall be payable in addition to that fee the amount of the Value Added Tax. 8 This Order may be cited as the Legal Officers (Annual Fees) Order 1997 and shall come into operation on the first day of January 1998. R B Gibson M J Colman C A McLintock G F Tattersall D J V Wright Dated this 19th day of May 1997 Approved by the General Synod the 14th day of July 1997 P J C Mawer Secretary-General
FAIR TRADING Citation and commencement 1 These Regulations may be cited as the Trading Schemes (Exclusion) (Amendment) Regulations 1997 and shall come into force on 21st August 1997. Amendments 2 The Trading Schemes (Exclusion) Regulations 1997 are hereby amended: a in regulation 3(a), by substituting for the words from the beginning of that paragraph to the word “does”:— any trading scheme which is a single tier trading scheme under which a participant operating at a level immediately below that of the promoter or single participant in the UK , who introduces another participant to the scheme at that level, b by substituting the following for regulation 3(b):— b any trading scheme all of the participants in which are making or have the intention of making taxable supplies in the UK and are registered for Value Added Tax; or Nigel Griffiths, Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Competition and Consumer Affairs, Department of Trade and Industry 30th July 1997
TELEGRAPHS 1 These Regulations may be cited as the Wireless Telegraphy (Licence Charges) (Amendment No. 2) Regulations 1997 and shall come into force on 1st September 1997. 2 The Wireless Telegraphy (Licence Charges) Regulations 1995 are hereby amended as follows: a in regulation 3(4), for sub-paragraphs (a), (d) and (f) there shall be substituted respectively the following sub-paragraphs: a “area” in relation to a channel means a channel specified in such licence which the licensee may use in an area with a population coverage of 200,000 individuals or more but below 2 million individuals; ; d “premium case” means a case where at the applicant’s request such licence is granted or varied outside office hours; and for the purposes of this definition “office hours” means 09.00 to 17.00 hours from Monday to Friday other than on a day which is a bank holiday in England and Wales; ; and f “regional” in relation to a channel means a channel specified in such licence which the licensee is authorised to use in an area with a population coverage of 2 million individuals or more but below 12 million individuals; ; b in regulation 3(4), there shall be inserted the following sub-paragraphs: ea “programme making” includes the making of a programme for broadcast, the making of a film, presentation, advertisement or audio or video tape, and the staging or performance of an entertainment, sporting or other public event; ; eb “programme sound link” in relation to a channel means a channel used to transmit the material produced in programme making from a fixed transmission station to a fixed receiving station; ; and ga “restricted service programme sound link” in relation to a channel means a channel used to transmit the material produced in programme making from a fixed transmission station to a fixed receiving station where the transmission is for a period not exceeding thirty consecutive days; ; c in regulation 4(2), the words “such day not being a time at which the licence falls to be renewed,” shall be inserted between the words “as the case may be),” and the words “shall be the prescribed time”; and d in Schedule 4, the provisions in the Schedule to these Regulations shall be substituted for the provisions relating to the categories headed “ Broadcasting and Ancillary Services ” and “ Hobby Radio ”. Barbara Roche Parliamentary Under Secretary of State for Small Firms, Trade and Industry, Department of Trade and Industry 28th July 1997 We consent to these Regulations Bob Ainsworth Graham Allen Two of the Lords Commissioners of Her Majesty’s Treasury 30th July 1997
MEDICAL PROFESSION 1 The said regulations are hereby approved. 2 This order may be cited as the General Medical Council (Registration (Fees) (Amendment) Regulations) Order of Council 1997. N. H. Nicholls Clerk of the Privy Council
BANKS AND BANKING Citation, commencement and interpretation 1 1 These Regulations may be cited as the Banking Act 1987 (Exempt Transactions) (Amendment) Regulations 1997 and shall come into force on 21st August 1997. 2 In these Regulations “the principal Regulations” shall mean the Banking Act 1997 (Exempt Transactions) Regulations 1997 . Amendment of principal Regulations 2 Regulation 14 of the principal Regulations shall be amended by substituting for paragraph (1) the following paragraph— 1 Where a relevant debt security issued in relation to the acceptance of a deposit intended to be an exempt transaction under regulation 13(1) or (3) above is commercial paper or a shorter term debt security or where it is a longer term debt security and in that case the requirements in regulation 13(4)(c), (d), (f) or (g) above apply, the relevant debt security shall meet the following requirements— a a single debt security shall be issued in consideration of the acceptance of the deposit, in the form of commercial paper or, as the case may be, a shorter term debt security or a longer term debt security; and b the redemption value of the relevant debt security shall be not less than £100,000 (or an amount of equivalent value denominated wholly or partly otherwise than in sterling); and c the whole or part of the relevant debt security may be transferred only if the redemption value of each such debt security or of the part of it being transferred is not less than £100,000 (or an amount of equivalent value denominated wholly or partly otherwise than in sterling). . Bob Ainsworth Jon Owen Jones Two of the Lords Commissioners of Her Majesty’s Treasury 29th July 1997