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NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE, ENGLAND AND WALES Citation and commencement 1 This Order may be cited as the Stockport Healthcare National Health Service Trust (Establishment) Amendment Order 1998 and shall come into force on 28th September 1998. Amendment of Establishment Order 2 For article 3 of the Stockport Healthcare National Health Service Trust (Establishment) Order 1993 (nature and functions of the trust) there shall be substituted the following article:— Nature and functions of the trust 3 1 The trust is established for the purposes specified in section 5(1) of the Act. 2 The trust’s functions (which include functions which the Secretary of State considers appropriate in relation to the provision of services by the trust for one or more Health Authorities) shall be:— a to provide and manage pursuant to section 5(1)(b) of the Act: i Stepping Hill Hospital, Poplar Grove, Stockport SK2 7JE, ii St. Thomas' Hospital, Shaw Heath, Stockport, Cheshire SK3 8BL, iii Tree Tops Hospital, Dale Road, Marple, Stockport, Cheshire SK8 6NG, iv Cherry Tree Hospital, Cherry Tree Lane, Stockport, Cheshire SK2 7PZ, v Ollersett Hospital, Low Leighton Road, New Mills, Derbyshire SK12 4LS, and other hospitals, establishments and facilities in the area of Stockport Health Authority, and there to provide and manage hospital accommodation and services; and b to provide and manage pursuant to section 5(1)(b) of the Act, The Meadows, Offerton House Site, Marple Road, Stockport, Cheshire SK2 5EA, and other hospitals, establishments and facilities in the area of Stockport Health Authority, and from there to provide and manage community health services. . Signed by authority of the Secretary of State for Health Alan Milburn Minister of State, Department of Health 17th September 1998
WATER INDUSTRY, ENGLAND & WALES Citation and commencement 1 This Order may be cited as the Severn Trent Water Authority (Extension of Byelaws) Order 1998 shall come into force on 25th September 1998. Extension of byelaws 2 The byelaws made by Severn Trent Water Authority on 13th march 1987 and having effect as if made by Severn Trent Water Limited shall remain in force until 31st December 1999. Revocation 3 The Severn Trent Water Limited (Extension of Byelaws) Order 1997 is hereby revoked. Signed by authority of the Secretary of State Alan Davis A Senior Civil Servant, Department of the Environment, Transport and the Regions 22nd September 1998 Signed by authority of the Secretary of State George Craig A Senior Civil Servant, Welsh Office 23rd September 1998
REGISTRATION OF BIRTHS, DEATHS, MARRIAGES, ETC. Citation commencement and interpretation 1 1 These Regulations may be cited as the Registration of Births, Still-Births, Deaths and Marriages (Prescription of Forms) (Scotland) Amendment Regulations 1998 and shall come into force on 1st January 1999. 2 In these Regulations, “the principal Regulations ” means the Registration of Births, Still-Births, Deaths and Marriages (Prescription of Forms) (Scotland) Regulations 1997 . Amendment of the principal Regulations 2 For the form set out in Schedule 10 to the principal Regulations there shall be substituted the form set out in Schedule 1 to these Regulations. 3 For the form set out in Schedule 11 to the principal Regulations there shall be substituted the form set out in Schedule 2 to these Regulations. James Meldrum Registrar General for Scotland New Register House, Edinburgh 4th September 1998 Approved by the Secretary of State Henry B McLeish Scottish Office St Andrew’s House, Edinburgh 10th September 1998
LOCAL GOVERNMENT, ENGLAND AND WALES Citation and commencement 1 This Order may be cited as the Local Government Act 1988 (Defined Activities) (Exemption) (East Lindsey and Suffolk District Councils) Order 1998 and shall come into force on 13th October 1998. Exemptions of financial services 2 The provision of financial services shall not be treated as a defined activity so long as it is carried out– 1 by the council of the district of East Lindsey during the period beginning with 1st April 1999 and ending on 31st March 2000; 2 by the council of the district of Suffolk Coastal during the period beginning with 1st April 1999 and ending on 31st March 2001. Signed by authority of the Secretary of State Hilary Armstrong Minister of State, Department of the Environment, Transport and the Regions 15th September 1998
FOOD Title, commencement and interpretation 1 1 These Regulations may be cited as the Extraction Solvents in Food (Amendment) Regulations 1998. 2 This regulation and regulation 2(a), (c)(ii) and (e)(ii) shall come into force on 27th October 1998 and the remainder of these Regulations shall come into force on 27th April 1999. 3 In these Regulations “the principal Regulations ” means the Extraction Solvents in Food Regulations 1993 . Amendment of the principal Regulations 2 The principal Regulations shall be amended as follows– a in regulation 4 (sale of food containing extraction solvents and of extraction solvents) in paragraph (2) subparagraph (e) for the words “items 11 to 20” there shall be substituted the words “items 11 to 21”; b after regulation 8 (transitional provision) there shall be inserted the following regulation– Defence in relation to existing stocks 9 In any proceedings for an offence under these Regulations it shall be a defence for the person charged to prove that– a the food or, as the case may be, the extraction solvent in respect of which the offence is alleged to have been committed was placed on the market or labelled before 27th April 1999; and b the act or omission alleged to constitute the offence would not, if it had been committed or had occurred, as appropriate, before 27th April 1999, have constituted an offence under these Regulations prior to their amendment by the Extraction Solvents in Food (Amendment) Regulations 1998. ; c in Schedule 1 Part I (permitted extraction solvents) in Column 1– i entry number 3 “Butyl acetate” and entry number 18 “Methyl-propan-l-ol” shall be omitted; ii after entry number 20 there shall be inserted the following entry– 21 l,1,1,2–tetrafluoroethane ; d for Schedule 2 (foods in which only certain permitted extraction solvents may be used and then only for certain purposes) there shall be substituted the content of the Schedule to these Regulations; and e in Schedule 3 (maximum residues of extraction solvent permitted in foods due to the use in those foods of food consisting of flavourings prepared from natural flavouring materials by using those extraction solvents)– i in Column 1 (extraction solvent) the entry “Methyl-propan-l-ol” shall be omitted together with the corresponding entry in Column 2 (maximum residue); and ii there shall be inserted at the end in Column 1 the entry “l,l,l,2–tetrafluoroethane” and in Column 2 the entry “0.02 mg/ kg ”. Jeff Rooker Minister of State, Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food 9th September 1998 Signed by authority of the Secretary of State for Health Tessa Jowell Minister of State for Public Health, Department of Health 9th September 1998 Signed by authority of the Secretary of State for Wales Jon Owen Jones Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State, Welsh Office 14th September 1998 Sam Galbraith Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State, Scottish Office 14th September 1998
CIVIL AVIATION 1 These Regulations may be cited as the Yugoslavia (Prohibition of Flights) Regulations 1998 and shall come into force on 18th September 1998. 2 In these Regulations “the Council Regulation” means Council Regulation ( EC ) No 1901/98 of 7 September 1998 concerning a ban on flights of Yugoslav carriers between the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia and the European Community . 3 Save where article 102 (Restriction with respect to carriage for valuable consideration in aircraft registered outside the United Kingdom) of the Air Navigation ( No. 2) Order 1995 is contravened, any person operating an aircraft on a flight between the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia and the United Kingdom contrary to article 1.1 of the Council Regulation shall be guilty of an offence under these Regulations. 4 Any person who, knowingly and intentionally, participates in activities the object or effect of which is, directly or indirectly, to circumvent the provisions of articles 1 and 2 of the Council Regulation contrary to article 4 of the Council Regulation shall be guilty of an offence under these Regulations. 5 1 Any person guilty of an offence under these Regulations shall be liable– a on summary conviction, to a fine not exceeding the statutory maximum; b on conviction on indictment, to a fine or to imprisonment for a term not exceeding two years or to both. 2 Where an offence under these Regulations has been committed by a body corporate and is proved to have been committed with the consent or connivance of, or to be attributable to any neglect on the part of any director, manager, secretary or other similar officer of the body corporate or any person who was purporting to act in any such capacity, he as well as the body corporate shall be guilty of that offence and liable to be proceeded against and punished accordingly. 3 Where the affairs of a body corporate are managed by its members, paragraph (2) above shall apply in relation to the acts and defaults of a member in connection with his functions of management as if he were a director of the body corporate. 4 Where a Scottish partnership is guilty of an offence under these Regulations and that offence is proved to have been committed with the consent or connivance of, or to be attributable to any neglect on the part of, a partner, he as well as the partnership shall be guilty of that offence and shall be liable to be proceeded against and punished accordingly. 5 Proceedings against any person for an offence under these Regulations may be taken before the appropriate court in the United Kingdom having jurisdiction in the place where that person is for the time being. Signed by authority of the Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions John Reid Minister of Transport, Department of the Environment, Transport and the Regions 17th September 1998
ROADS AND BRIDGES, SCOTLAND Citation and commencement 1 These Regulations may be cited as the Road Works (Registers, Notices, Directions and Designations) (Scotland) Amendment Regulations 1998 and shall come into force on 9th October 1998. Amendment to the Road Works (Registers, Notices, Directions and Designations) (Scotland) Regulations 1992 2 In Schedule 3 to the Road Works (Registers, Notices, Directions and Designations) (Scotland) Regulations 1992 in column 1 (Local Authority Identifier Code) the figure “9081” in relation to East Dunbartonshire shall be deleted and there shall be substituted the figure “9061”. Calum MacDonald Parliamentary Under Secretary of State, Scottish Office St Andrew’s House, Edinburgh 7th September 1998
MONOPOLIES AND MERGERS 1 This Order may be cited as the Monopoly References (Deletion of Exclusions) Order 1998 and shall come into force on 16th October 1998. 2 In Part II of Schedule 7 to the Fair Trading Act 1973 (goods and services partly excluded from section 50), the entries in– a paragraph 9 (liquid cows' milk), and b paragraph 12 (potatoes), are deleted. 3 The Monopoly References (Alteration of Exclusions) Order 1994 is revoked. Kim Howells, Parliamentary Under Secretary of State for Competition and Consumer Affairs, Department of Trade and Industry 15th September 1998
SOCIAL SECURITY Citation and commencement 1 These Regulations may be cited as the Social Security Amendment (Capital) Regulations 1998 and shall come into force on 12th October 1998. Capital jointly held 2 1 In each of the regulations specified in paragraph (2) of this regulation, for the words from “to an equal share" to the end of the regulation there shall be substituted the following– to the whole beneficial interest therein in an equal share and the foregoing provisions of this Chapter shall apply for the purposes of calculating the amount of capital which the claimant is treated as possessing as if it were actual capital which the claimant does possess . 2 The regulations specified for the purposes of paragraph (1) of this regulation (which relate to capital jointly held) are– a regulation 36 of the Council Tax Benefit (General) Regulations 1992 ; b regulation 39 of the Disability Working Allowance (General) Regulations 1991 ; c regulation 35 of the Family Credit (General) Regulations 1987 ; d regulation 44 of the Housing Benefit (General) Regulations 1987 ; e regulation 52 of the Income Support (General) Regulations 1987 ; f regulation 115 of the Jobseeker’s Allowance Regulations 1996 . Signed by authority of the Secretary of State for Social Security. Angela Eagle Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State, Department of Social Security
PLANT HEALTH Title and commencement 1 This Order may be cited as the Disposal of Waste (Control of Beet Rhizomania Disease) (Revocation) Order 1998 and shall come into force on 7th October 1998. Revocation 2 The Disposal of Waste (Control of Beet Rhizomania Disease) Order 1988 is hereby revoked. Jeff Rooker Minister of State, Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food 9th September 1998 Sewel Parliamentary Under Secretary of State, Scottish Office 14th September 1998 Signed by authority of the Secretary of State for Wales Jon Owen Jones Parliamentary Under Secretary of State, Welsh Office 14th September 1998
SPORTS GROUNDS AND SPORTING EVENTS 1 This Order may be cited as the Sports Grounds and Sporting Events (Designation) (Scotland) Order 1998 and shall come into force on 13th October 1998. 2 For the purposes of Part II of the Criminal Law (Consolidation) (Scotland) Act 1995 there are hereby designated– a the sports grounds specified in Parts I, II and III of Schedule 1 to this Order; b the classes of sporting events specified in Part I of Schedule 2 to this Order, at any of the sports grounds specified in Parts I and II of Schedule 1 to this Order; c the class of sporting event specified in Part II of Schedule 2 to this Order, at the sports grounds specified in Parts II and III of Schedule 1 to this Order; d the classes of sporting events specified in Part III of Schedule 2 to this Order. 3 The Orders specified in Schedule 3 to this Order are hereby revoked. Sam Galbraith Parliamentary Under Secretary of State, The Scottish Office St Andrew’s House, Edinburgh 15th September 1998
LOCAL GOVERNMENT, ENGLAND AND WALES Citation, commencement and interpretation 1 1 This Order may be cited as the District of Alnwick (Electoral Changes) Order 1998. 2 This Order shall come into force for all purposes on 6th May 1999, except that for the purpose of all proceedings preliminary or relating to an election to be held on or after that date this Order shall come into force on 10th October 1998. 3 In this Order– “the district” means the district of Alnwick; “existing”, in relation to a ward, means the ward as it exists on the date this Order is made; any reference to “the map” is a reference to the map prepared by the Department of the Environment, Transport and the Regions, marked “Map of the District of Alnwick (Electoral Changes) Order 1998”, and deposited in accordance with regulation 27 of the Local Government Changes for England Regulations 1994 . Wards of Alnwick 2 1 The existing wards of the district shall be abolished. 2 The district shall be divided into sixteen wards which shall bear the names set out in column (1) of Schedule 1. 3 The wards shall comprise the areas described in column (2) of that Schedule by reference to parishes, or, where no area is so described, the area designated on the map by reference to the name of the ward and demarcated by red lines; and the number of councillors to be elected for each ward shall be the number specified in respect of the ward in column (3) of that Schedule. 4 Where a boundary is shown on the map as running along a road, railway line, footway, waterway or other similar geographical feature, it shall be treated as running along the centre line of the feature. Wards of the parish of Alnwick 3 1 The existing wards of the parish of Alnwick shall be abolished. 2 The parish shall be divided into three parish wards which shall bear the names set out in column (1) of Schedule 2; each parish ward shall comprise the area of the district ward specified in respect of that parish ward in column (2) of that Schedule and the number of councillors to be elected for each parish ward shall be the number specified in respect of that parish ward in column (3) of that Schedule. Wards of the parish of Amble 4 1 The existing wards of the parish of Amble shall be abolished. 2 The parish shall be divided into three parish wards which shall bear the names set out in column (1) of Schedule 3; the parish wards shall comprise the areas described in column (2) of that Schedule by reference to wards of the district and the number of councillors to be elected for each parish ward shall be three. Revocation 5 The District of Alnwick (Electoral Arrangements) Order 1976 is hereby revoked. Signed by authority of the Secretary of State Hilary Armstrong Minister of State, Department of the Environment, Transport and the Regions 21st September 1998
FRIENDLY SOCIETIES Citation and commencement 1 This Order may be cited as the Friendly Societies (Activities of a Subsidiary) Order 1998 and shall come into force on the 19th October 1998. Variation of Schedule 7 2 Schedule 7 to the Friendly Societies Act 1992 (which lists the activities which may be carried on by a subsidiary of, or a body jointly controlled by, an incorporated friendly society) is amended by inserting after paragraph 1 the following paragraph– 1A The establishment and management, or arranging for the establishment and management, of individual savings accounts; and in this paragraph “individual savings accounts” means plans of a kind referred to in section 333(1A) of the Income and Corporation Taxes Act 1988 . In witness whereof the common seal of the Friendly Societies Commission is hereto fixed, and is authenticated by me, a person authorised under paragraph 13 of Schedule 1 to the Friendly Societies Act 1992, on 21st September 1998. B.F. D'Silva We consent to this Order. Clive Betts Jim Dowd Two of the Lords Commissioners of Her Majesty’s Treasury 25th September 1998
CUSTOMS AND EXCISE 1 This Order may be cited as the Finance Act 1998, Schedule 2, (Appointed Day) Order 1998. 2 1 Subject to paragraph (2) below of this article, the day appointed as the day on which Schedule 2 to the Finance Act 1998 comes into force is 1st October 1998. 2 Paragraph (1) above of this article does not apply in relation to the following paragraphs of Schedule 2 to the Finance Act 1998– a paragraph 6; and b paragraphs 8(3), 9(4) and 10(c), insofar as each of those paragraphs concerns section 2 of the Finance ( No. 2) Act 1992 . D.J. Howard Commissioner of Customs and Excise New King’s Beam House, 22 Upper Ground, London, SE1 9PJ 14th September 1998
SOCIAL SECURITY Citation, commencement and interpretation 1 1 These Regulations may be cited as the Social Security (Contributions) Amendment (No. 4) Regulations 1998 and shall come into force on 22nd September 1998. 2 In these Regulations “the principal Regulations ” means the Social Security (Contributions) Regulations 1979 . Amendment of regulation 19 of the principal Regulations 2 In regulation 19 of the principal Regulations (payments to be disregarded) before paragraph (1)(n) , insert– mm a payment which comprises any gain on which the earner is chargeable to tax by virtue of section 135 of the Income and Corporation Taxes Act 1988 (gains by directors and employees from share options) ; . Signed by authority of the Secretary of State for Social Security. Stephen C. Timms Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State, Department of Social Security 21st September 1998
EDUCATION, SCOTLAND Citation, commencement and extent 1 These Regulations may be cited as the Education (Fees and Awards) (Scotland) Amendment Regulations 1998, shall come into force on 12th October 1998 and shall extend to Scotland only. Amendment of the Education (Fees and Awards) (Scotland) Regulations 1997 2 1 The Education (Fees and Awards) (Scotland) Regulations 1997 shall be amended in accordance with the following paragraphs. 2 In regulation 6, at the beginning there shall be inserted the words “Subject to regulation 6A,”. 3 After regulation 6 there shall be added the following new regulation– 6A 1 The provisions of regulation 6(c) shall not apply in respect of a student in relation to his attending a course of a kind specified in paragraph (2) where– a he has previously attended a course of a kind specified in paragraph (2) during an academic year beginning before 1st September 1997 and had in relation to his attending that course a relevant connection with the United Kingdom and Islands; and b he begins to attend the course in question– i immediately after successfully completing the course referred to in sub-paragraph (a); or ii immediately after successfully completing a course in relation to which the provisions of regulation 6(c) do not apply by reason of this regulation. 2 The kinds of course for the purposes of paragraph (1) are those specified in paragraphs (a), (b), (c) and (e) of section 38(2) of the Further and Higher Education (Scotland) Act 1992 . 3 In determining for the purposes of this regulation whether a student begins to attend a course immediately after another course any intervening vacation shall be disregarded. 4 For the purposes of this regulation a student successfully completes a course only if he qualifies for the award to which the course leads. . Helen Liddell Minister of State, Scottish Office St Andrew’s House, Edinburgh 17th September 1998
EDUCATION, ENGLAND AND WALES Citation and commencement 1 These Regulations may be cited as the School Standards and Framework Act 1998 (Admissions) (Modifications) Regulations 1998 and shall come into force on 1st October 1998. Modifications of the Act 2 In relation to any time before the appointed day , section 99(5) of the Act (general restriction on selection by ability or aptitude) shall apply with the following modification, namely that in place of paragraph (d) there is substituted– d “maintained school” means a county, voluntary or grant-maintained school within the meaning of the Education Act 1996 . 3 1 In relation to any time before section 28 of and Schedule 6 to the Act come into force, section 101 of the Act (permitted selection: pupil banding) shall apply with the following modification, namely that in place of subsections (3) and (4) there are substituted– 3 The introduction for a maintained school of admission arrangements to which subsection (1) applies shall constitute a significant change in the character of the school for the purposes of sections 35(1), 41(2), 259(1) and 260(2) of the Education Act 1996. 4 Such arrangements are not authorised for any school by this section unless proposals to have such arrangements have been approved, or determined to be implemented or adopted, under section 37, 38, 43, 214, or 261 of the Education Act 1996, as the case may be. 2 The modification made by this regulation does not affect the operation of any transitional provision or saving made in connection with the coming into force of section 101 . Charles Clarke Parliamentary Under Secretary of State, Department for Education and Employment 10th September 1998