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LEGAL AID AND ADVICE, SCOTLAND Citation, commencement and interpretation 1 1 These Regulations may be cited as the Civil Legal Aid (Scotland) Amendment Regulations 1998 and shall come into force on 6th April 1998. 2 In these Regulations, “the principal Regulations ” means the Civil Legal Aid (Scotland) Regulations 1996 . Application 2 These Regulations shall apply only in relation to any case where an application for legal aid is made to the Scottish Legal Aid Board on or after 6th April 1998. Amendment of principal Regulations 3 In Schedule 2 to the principal Regulations (rules for computing disposable income) for rule 13 there shall be substituted– 13 1 There shall be a deduction in respect of the maintenance of the spouse of the person concerned, if the spouses are living together and in respect of the maintenance of any person wholly or substantially maintained by the person concerned, being a member of his or her household, (“a dependent person”) at the following rates:– a in the case of a spouse, at a rate equivalent to the difference, as at the date when the computation period began, between the income support allowance for a couple where both members are aged not less than 18 (which is specified in column (2) of paragraph 1(3)(d) of Part I of Schedule 2 to the Income Support (General) Regulations 1987 ), and the allowance for a single person aged not less than 25 (which is specified in column (2) of paragraph 1(1)(e) of Part I of Schedule 2 to those Regulations ); b in the case of a dependent person aged under 19, at a rate equivalent to the amount specified in column 2 of paragraph 2(1) of Part I of Schedule 2 to the Income Support (General) Regulations 1987 appropriate to that person; c in the case of a dependent person aged 19 or over at a rate equivalent to the amount specified in column 2 of paragraph 2(1)(c) of Part I of Schedule 2 to the Income Support (General) Regulations 1987. Provided that the Board may reduce such rate by taking into account the income and other resources of the dependent person to such extent as appears to the Board to be just and equitable. 2 In ascertaining whether a person is a dependent person regard shall be had to their income and other resources. . 4 In Schedule 3 to the principal Regulations (rules for computing disposable capital)– a rule 5(b) shall be amended by adding the word “substantially” after the word “without”. b for rule 15(2) there shall be substituted “In this Schedule pensionable age means the age of 60”. Henry McLeish Minister of State, Scottish Office St Andrew’s House, Edinburgh 6th March 1998 We concur, John Owen Jones Graham Allen Two of the Lords Commissioners of Her Majesty’s Treasury 11th March 1998
TELEGRAPHS Citation and commencement 1 This Order may be cited as the Wireless Telegraphy (Control of Interference from Videosenders) Order 1998 and shall come into force on 20th April 1998. Revocation 2 The Wireless Telegraphy (Control of Interference from Videosenders) Order 1997 is hereby revoked. Interpretation 3 In this Order— “the 1967 Act” means the Wireless Telegraphy Act 1967; “television set” has the meaning given to it by section 6(1) of the 1967 Act ; “video camera” means apparatus designed or adapted for capturing visual images (with or without sound) and converting the same into signals; “video recorder” means apparatus designed or adapted to be used for the purposes of making or playing back video recordings; “video recording” means any disc, magnetic tape or any other device capable of storing data electronically containing information by the use of which the whole or a part of a video work may be produced; “videosender” means wireless telegraphy apparatus which is designed or adapted, or is capable of being adapted, for the purpose of transmitting visual images (with or without sound) in the frequency band 470—854 MHz from a video camera, a video recorder or other equipment to a television set or other receiving apparatus and which is neither licensed under the provisions of section 1(1) of the Wireless Telegraphy Act 1949 nor exempt therefrom; and “video work” means any series of visual images (with or without sound)— produced electronically by the use of information contained on any disc, magnetic tape or any other device capable of storing data electronically; and shown as a moving picture. Actions restricted 4 1 No person shall take any of the actions listed below in relation to videosenders— a manufacture (whether or not for sale); b selling or offering for sale, letting on hire or offering to let on hire, or indicating (whether by display of the apparatus or by any form of advertisement) one’s willingness to sell or let on hire; c having in one’s custody or control; and d importation. 2 Nothing in this Article prevents having in one’s custody or control and importation of videosenders for the sole purpose of re-export from the United Kingdom. Barbara Roche, Parliamentary Under Secretary of State for Small Firms, Trade and Industry, Department of Trade and Industry 10th March 1998
VALUE ADDED TAX 1 This Order may be cited as the Value Added Tax (Supply of Services) (Amendment) Order 1998 and shall come into force on 18th March 1998 in relation to services which are put to any private use, or used or made available to any person for use for a purpose other than a purpose of the business, on or after that date. 2 The Value Added Tax (Supply of Services) Order 1993 shall be amended in accordance with the following provisions of this Order. 3 In article 6(b), for “was” there shall be substituted “has or will become”. 4 In article 7— a for “was entitled” there shall be substituted “has or will become entitled”; and b from the words “credit” to “Act” there shall be substituted “credit under sections 25 and 26 of the Act”. 5 After article 7 there shall be added— 8 Where— a there is a supply of any of the assets of a business of a person (“the transferor”) to a person to whom the whole or any part of that business is transferred as a going concern (“the transferee”), and b that supply is treated in accordance with an Order made under section 5(3) of the Act (or under an enactment re-enacted in section 5(3) of the Act) as being neither a supply of goods nor a supply of services, the liability of the transferee to tax in accordance with articles 5, 6(b) and 7 above, shall be determined as if the transferor and the transferee were the same person. 9 Where a transferor has himself acquired any assets by way of a supply falling within paragraphs (a) and (b) of article 8 above, that article shall have the effect of requiring the person from whom those assets were acquired to be treated for the purposes of determining the liability of the transferee to tax in accordance with articles 5, 6(b) and 7 above as the same person as the transferor and the transferee, and so on in the case of any number of successive supplies falling within those paragraphs. . Graham Allen Jim Dowd Two of the Lord Commissioners of Her Majesty’s Treasury 17th March 1998
NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE, ENGLAND AND WALES Citation, commencement and interpretation 1 1 This Order may be cited as the Durham County Priority Services National Health Service Trust (Establishment) Order 1998 and shall come into force on 1st April 1998. 2 In this Order, unless the context otherwise requires— “ the Act ” means the National Health Service and Community Care Act 1990; “community health services” means any services which the Secretary of State may provide under section 3(1)(d) or (e) of or Schedule 1 to the National Health Service Act 1977 and any service which he has a duty to provide under section 5(1) or (1A) of that Act ; “the trust” means the Durham County Priority Services National Health Service Trust established by article 2 of this Order. Establishment and name of the trust 2 There is hereby established an NHS trust which shall be called the Durham County Priority Services National Health Service Trust. Nature and functions of the trust 3 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 to provide and manage pursuant to section 5(1)(b) of the Act hospitals, establishments or facilities in the area of County Durham Health Authority, and there to provide hospital accommodation and services and community health services. Directors of the trust 4 The trust shall have, in addition to the chairman, 5 non-executive directors and 5 executive directors. Operational date and accounting date of the trust 5 1 The operational date of the trust shall be 1st April 1998. 2 The accounting date of the trust shall be 31st March. Restriction on disposal of assets 6 The sum specified for the purposes of paragraph 6(2)(d) of Schedule 2 to the Act (maximum value of freely disposable assets) in relation to the trust shall be £1,000,000. Signed by authority of the Secretary of State for Health Alan Milburn Minister of State Department of Health 19th March 1998
NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE, ENGLAND AND WALES Citation and commencement 1 This Order may be cited as the Community Health Care: North Durham National Health Service Trust (Dissolution) Order 1998 and shall come into force on 1st April 1998. Dissolution of NHS trust 2 The Community Health Care: North Durham National Health Service Trust established by the Community Health Care: North Durham National Health Service Trust (Establishment) Order 1993 is dissolved, and accordingly that Order is revoked. Signed by authority of the Secretary of State for Health 19th March 1998 Alan Milburn Minister of State Department of Health
LOCAL GOVERNMENT, ENGLAND AND WALES Citation and commencement 1 This Order may be cited as the Local Government Act 1988 (Defined Activities) (Exemption) (Maidstone Borough Council) Order 1998 and shall come into force on 10th April 1998. Exemption of supervision of parking work 2 Supervision of parking by the council of the borough of Maidstone shall not be treated as a defined activity so long as it is carried out in their area before 30th January 1999. Signed by authority of the Secretary of State Nick Raynsford Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State, Department of the Environment, Transport and the Regions 9th March 1998
LOCAL GOVERNMENT, ENGLAND AND WALES Citation 1 This Order may be cited as the Local Government and Rating Act 1997 (Commencement No. 4) Order 1998. Commencement of minor and consequential amendments and repeals 2 The following provisions of the Local Government and Rating Act 1997 shall come into force on 18th March 1998— a section 33, in so far as it relates to the provisions mentioned in paragraphs (b) and (c) below; b in Schedule 3, paragraph 17; and c in Schedule 4, the repeals in the Local Government Act 1972 . Signed by authority of the Secretary of State Nick Raynsford Parliamentary Under Secretary of State, Department of the Environment, Transport and the Regions 12th March 1998
FOOD Citation and commencement 1 These Regulations may be cited as the Welfare Food (Amendment) Regulations 1998 and shall come into force on 6th April 1998. Amendment of regulation 7 of the Welfare Food Regulations 1996 2 In regulation 7(1) of the Welfare Food Regulations 1996 (purchase of dried milk at a reduced price) for “£3.75” there shall be substituted “£3.85”. Frank Dobson One of Her Majesty’s Principal Secretaries of State, Department of Health 11th March 1998
NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE, ENGLAND AND WALES Citation and commencement 1 This Order may be cited as the Gateshead Healthcare National Health Service Trust (Dissolution) Order 1998 and shall come into force on 1st April 1998. Dissolution of NHS trust 2 The Gateshead Healthcare National Health Service Trust established by the Gateshead Healthcare (Establishment) Order 1994 is dissolved, and accordingly that Order is revoked. Signed by authority of the Secretary of State for Health Alan Milburn Minister of State Department of Health 19th March 1998
CONSTRUCTION CONTRACTS Citation, commencement and extent 1 1 These Regulations may be cited as the Scheme for Construction Contracts (Scotland) Regulations 1998 and shall come into force at the end of the period of 8 weeks beginning with the day on which they are made. 2 These Regulations extend to Scotland only. Interpretation 2 In these Regulations, “ the Act ” means the Housing Grants, Construction and Regeneration Act 1996. The Scheme for Construction Contracts (Scotland) 3 Where a construction contract does not comply with the requirements of subsections (1) to (4) of section 108 of the Act, the adjudication provisions in Part I of the Schedule to these Regulations shall apply. 4 Where– a the parties to a construction contract are unable to reach agreement for the purposes mentioned respectively in sections 109, 111 and 113 of the Act; or b a construction contract does not make provision as required by section 110 of the Act, the relevant provisions in Part II of the Schedule to these Regulations shall apply. 5 The provisions in the Schedule to these Regulations shall be the Scheme for Construction Contracts (Scotland) for the purposes of section 114 of the Act. Hardie Lord Advocate Edinburgh 6th March 1998
RATING AND VALUATION Citation and commencement 1 This Order may be cited as the Valuation and Rating (Exempted Classes) (Scotland) Order 1998 and shall come into force on the fourteenth day after the day on which it is made. Interpretation 2 In this Order, “pipe-line” means a pipe or system of pipes together with any associated apparatus and works, so far as lying seaward of the low water mark of ordinary spring tides, for the purpose of transporting from Scotland to Northern Ireland or the Republic of Ireland natural gas after storage, refining or other treatment on land. Exempted lands and heritages 3 1 No lands and heritages consisting of a pipe-line shall be entered in the valuation roll. 2 Where, at the date of this Order coming into force, lands and heritages consisting of a pipe-line are already entered in the valuation roll, the assessor shall delete those lands and heritages from the roll. 3 Any deletion required under paragraph (2) shall have effect as from 1st April 1996 or from the date on which the relevant entry in the valuation roll became effective, whichever is the later. Calum MacDonald Parliamentary Under Secretary of State, Scottish Office St Andrew’s House, Edinburgh 6th March 1998
NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE, ENGLAND AND WALES Citation, commencement and interpretation 1 1 This Order may be cited as the Royal Brompton and Harefield National Health Service Trust (Establishment) Order 1998 and shall come into force on 1st April 1998. 2 In this Order, unless the context otherwise requires— “ the Act ” means the National Health Service and Community Care Act 1990; “the trust” means the Royal Brompton and Harefield National Health Service Trust established by article 2 of this Order. Establishment and name of the trust 2 There is hereby established an NHS trust which shall be called the Royal Brompton and Harefield National Health Service Trust. Functions of the trust 3 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 to provide and manage pursuant to section 5(1)(b) of the Act: i the Royal Brompton National Heart and Lung Hospital, Sydney Street, Chelsea, London SW3 6NP, ii Harefield Hospital, Harefield, Middlesex UB9 6JH and associated hospitals and facilities, and there to provide hospital accommodation and services (including the management of teaching and research facilities). Directors of the trust 4 The trust shall have, in addition to the chairman, 5 executive directors and 5 non-executive directors. Significant teaching commitment 5 1 The trust is to be regarded as having a significant teaching commitment by virtue of paragraph 3(2)(b) of Schedule 2 to the Act. 2 One of the non-executive directors of the trust shall be appointed from the University of London. Operational date and accounting date of the trust 6 1 The operational date of the trust shall be 1st April 1998. 2 The accounting date of the trust shall be 31st March. Restriction on disposal of assets 7 The sum specified for the purposes of paragraph 6(2)(d) of Schedule 2 to the Act (maximum value of freely disposable assets) in relation to the trust shall be £1,000,000. Signed by authority of the Secretary of State for Health Alan Milburn Minister of State, Department of Health 17th March 1998
BROADCASTING Citation and commencement 1 This Order may be cited as the Broadcasting Digital Terrestrial Sound (Technical Service) Order 1998 and shall come into force on 2nd April 1998. Meaning of technical service 2 The service specified for the purpose of section 63(3)(b) of the Broadcasting Act 1996 is that consisting of the transmission of telecommunication signals (as such expression is defined in section 114(6) of the Broadcasting Act 1990 ) by means of which access to programmes or other information included in digital sound programme services or digital additional services is controlled so that only those persons who are authorised to receive such programmes and information do so. Chris Smith Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport 10th March 1998
VALUE ADDED TAX 1 These Regulations may be cited as the Value Added Tax (Amendment) (No. 2) Regulations 1998 and shall come into force on 18th March 1998. 2 Paragraph (5) of regulation 90 of the Value Added Tax Regulations 1995 shall be amended by substituting for the words “article 20” the words “article 18”. Martin Brown Commissioner of Customs and Excise New Ring’s Beam House 22 Upper Ground London SE1 9PJ 17th March 1998
NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE, ENGLAND AND WALES Citation and commencement 1 This Order may be cited as the South and East Wales Ambulance National Health Service Trust (Dissolution) Order 1998 and shall come into force on 1st April 1998. Dissolution of NHS Trust 2 The South and East Wales Ambulance National Health Service Trust established by the South and East Wales Ambulance National Health Service Trust (Establishment) Order 1992 is hereby dissolved, and accordingly that Order and the South and East Wales Ambulance National Health Service Trust (Establishment) (Amendment) Order 1996 are hereby revoked. Signed by authority of the Secretary of State for Wales Win Griffiths Parliamentary Under Secretary of State, Welsh Office 26th February 1998
NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE, ENGLAND AND WALES Citation and commencement 1 This Order may be cited as the West Wales Ambulance National Health Service Trust (Dissolution) Order 1998 and shall come into force on 1st April 1998. Dissolution of NHS Trust 2 The West Wales Ambulance National Health Service Trust established by the West Wales Ambulance National Health Service Trust (Establishment) Order 1995 is hereby dissolved, and accordingly that Order is hereby revoked. Signed by authority of the Secretary of State for Wales Win Griffiths Parliamentary Under Secretary of State, Welsh Office 26th February 1998
EDUCATION, ENGLAND AND WALES Citation, commencement and interpretation 1 1 This Order may be cited as the Education (London Residuary Body) (Property Transfer) (Modification and Amendment) Order 1998 and shall come into force on 6th April 1998. 2 In this Order a reference to “the principal Order” is a reference to the Education (London Residuary Body) (Property Transfer) Order 1992 . Modification of effect and amendment of the principal Order 2 Article 4(7) of the principal Order (which imposed a condition that the former Wandsworth Boys' Secondary School, Sutherland Grove, SW18 should be brought into use by the Council of the London Borough of Wandsworth as the site for a new school established under section 35 or 41 of the Education Act 1996 or as the site for a school transferring to that site under section 35 or 47 of that Act by 1st September 1999 ) shall apply only in respect of that part of the site of the said School edged in blue on the plan number SG/001, dated 28th November 1997, and described as “Plan referred to in article 2 of the Education (London Residuary Body) (Property Transfer) (Modification and Amendment) Order 1998”. 3 In article 4(7) of the principal Order (which by virtue of article 2 above applies only in respect of that part of the site edged in blue on the plan referred to in that article) for “1st September 1999” there shall be substituted “1st September 2000”. Stephen Byers Minister of State, Department for Education and Employment 12th March 1998
EDUCATION, SCOTLAND Citation and commencement 1 These Regulations may be cited as the Teachers (Compensation for Premature Retirement and Redundancy) (Scotland) Amendment Regulations 1998 and shall come into force on 15th April 1998. Discretionary compensation for termination 2 In regulation 16B of the Teachers (Compensation for Premature Retirement and Redundancy) (Scotland) Regulations 1996 for the words from “B is the amount” to the end there shall be substituted– B is the total of– any redundancy payment to which he is entitled under Part XI of the Employment Rights Act 1996 ; and any compensation which is paid to him under Part III of these Regulations (additional compensation for redundancy). . Brian Wilson Minister of State, Scottish Office St Andrew’s House, Edinburgh 26th February 1998 We consent, Graham Allen Jim Dowd Two of the Lords Commissioners of Her Majesty’s Treasury 4th March 1998
NORTHERN IRELAND 1 This Order may be cited as the Public Processions (Northern Ireland) Act 1998 (Commencement) Order 1998. 2 The provisions of the Public Processions (Northern Ireland) Act 1998 in so far as they are not already in force shall come into force on 2nd March 1998. Marjorie Mowlam One of Her Majesty’s Principal Secretaries of State Northern Ireland Office 25th February 1998
NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE, ENGLAND AND WALES Citation and commencement 1 This Order may be cited as the Dissolution of the Crawley Horsham National Health Service Trust and the East Surrey Healthcare National Health Service Trust Order 1998 and shall come into force on 1st April 1998. Dissolution of NHS trusts 2 1 The Crawley Horsham National Health Service Trust established by the Crawley Horsham National Health Service Trust (Establishment) Order 1992 is dissolved, and accordingly that Order is revoked. 2 The East Surrey Healthcare National Health Service Trust established by the East Surrey Hospital and Community Healthcare National Health Service Trust (Establishment) Order 1992 is dissolved, and accordingly that Order is revoked. Signed by authority of the Secretary of State for Health Alan Milburn Minister of State, Department of Health 10th March 1998
NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE, ENGLAND AND WALES Citation and commencement 1 This Order may be cited as the North Wales Ambulance National Health Service Trust (Dissolution) Order 1998 and shall come into force on 1st April 1998. Dissolution of NHS Trust 2 The North Wales Ambulance National Health Service Trust established by the North Wales Ambulance National Health Service Trust (Establishment) Order 1993 is hereby dissolved, and accordingly that Order is hereby revoked. Signed by authority of the Secretary of State for Wales Win Griffiths Parliamentary Under Secretary of State, Welsh Office 26th February 1998
RIVER, SCOTLAND Citation and commencement 1 These Regulations may be cited as the River Ewe Salmon Fishery District (Baits and Lures) Regulations 1998 and shall come into force on 1st April 1998. Specification of baits and lures and area of application 2 1 Natural prawns and shrimps (whether fresh or preserved, dyed or natural colour) and any part thereof are hereby specified as baits and lures for the purposes of the definition of “rod and line” in section 24(1) of the Salmon and Freshwater Fisheries (Protection) (Scotland) Act 1951 . 2 These Regulations shall apply to the River Ewe Salmon Fishery District. G.M.Thomson Assistant Secretary, Scottish Office Pentland House, Edinburgh 6th March 1998