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FOREIGN COMPENSATION 1 This Order may be cited as the Foreign Compensation (Financial Provisions) Order 1989 and shall come into force on 30th March 1989. 2 The Foreign Compensation Commission shall pay into the Consolidated Fund not later than 31st March 1989 out of the compensation funds named in Column 1 of the Schedule to this Order the amounts specified in Column 2 of the Schedule which are hereby determined to be the amounts of the expenses of the Commission during the periods specified in Column 3 of the Schedule attributable to the discharge by the Commission of their functions in relation to the distribution of sums from those compensation funds. G. I. de Deney Clerk of the Privy Council
SOCIAL SECURITY Citation, commencement and interpretation 1 1 This Order may be cited as the Social Security (Isle of Man) Order 1989 and shall come into force on 10th April 1989. 2 In this Order– “the Principal Order ” means the Social Security (Isle of Man) Order 1977 ; “the Principal Agreement” means the Agreement set out in Schedule 1 to the Principal Order. Modification of the Social Security Act 1975 and amendment of Principal Order 2 The Social Security Act 1975 shall be modified and the Principal Order shall be varied so as to give effect to the Principal Agreement as amended by the Agreement which is set out in the Schedule to this Order, so far as the same relate to England, Wales and Scotland. G. I. de Deney Clerk of the Privy Council
LOCAL GOVERNMENT, ENGLAND AND WALES 1 This Order may be cited as the Local Authorities (Armorial Bearings) Order 1989 and shall come into force on 5th April 1989. 2 Subject to article 3 of this Order, the town council of Northam may bear and use the armorial bearings which were immediately before 1st April 1974 borne and used by Northam urban district council. 3 Armorial bearings shall not be borne or used pursuant to article 2 of this Order until they have been exemplified according to the laws of arms and recorded in the College of Arms. G. I. de Deney Clerk of the Privy Council
CRIMINAL LAW, ENGLAND AND WALES Title and commencement 1 This Order may be cited as the Drug Trafficking Offences Act 1986 (United States of America) Order 1989 and shall come into force on the fourteenth day following the date of making of this Order. Interpretation 2 In this Order– “ the Act ” means the Drug Trafficking Offences Act 1986; “a court of the United States of America” means a court of the United States of America or of any of its states or territories. Designation of and application of the Act to the United States of America 3 1 The United States of America is hereby designated for the purposes of sections 26 and 26A of the Act. 2 The Act shall apply, subject to the modifications set out in Schedule 1 to this Order, in relation to an external confiscation order made by a court of the United States of America and to proceedings which have been or are to be instituted in the United States of America and which may result in an external confiscation order being made there, and, accordingly, in relation to such orders and such proceedings, the Act shall have effect as set out in Schedule 2 to this Order. Orders made in the United States of America 4 For the purposes of section 26 of the Act, and of the Act as applied under article 3 above, in any proceedings in the High Court a certificate issued by or on behalf of the Attorney General of the United States of America stating either– a that an order (however described) made by a court of the United States of America has the purpose of recovering payments or other rewards received in connection with drug trafficking or their value, or b that proceedings have been instituted against a person in the United States of America and have not been concluded there, shall be admissible as evidence of the facts so stated. Satisfaction of confiscation order in the United States of America 5 1 Where– a a confiscation order has been made under section 1 of the Act; and b a request has been made by the Secretary of State for the assistance of the government of the United States of America in enforcing that order; and c in consequence of that request property is recovered in the United States of America which represents, directly or indirectly, proceeds of drug trafficking which were taken into account under section 2 of the Act by the court which made the confiscation order, the amount payable under the confiscation order shall be treated as reduced by the value of property so recovered. 2 For the purposes of paragraph (1) above a certificate issued by or on behalf of the Attorney General of the United States of America stating that property has been recovered there in consequence of a request by the Secretary of State and stating the value of the property so recovered shall be admissible as evidence of the facts so stated. G.I. de Deney Clerk of the Privy Council
CHILDREN AND YOUNG PERSONS 1 1 This Order may be cited as the Child Abduction and Custody (Parties to Conventions) Order 1989. 2 The Child Abduction and Custody (Parties to Conventions) (Amendment) ( No. 3) Order 1988 is revoked. 2 The Child Abduction and Custody (Parties to Conventions) Order 1986 is amended by deleting Schedule 1 thereto and substituting therefor the following – SCHEDULE 1 CONVENTION ON THE CIVIL ASPECTS OF INTERNATIONAL CHILD ABDUCTION, THE HAGUE, 25th OCTOBER 1980 Article 2 Contracting States to the Convention Territories specified in Declarations under Article 39 or 40 of the Convention Date of Coming into Force as between the United Kingdom and the State or Territory Australia Australian States and mainland Territories 1st January 1987 Austria — 1st October 1988 Canada Ontario 1st August 1986 New Brunswick 1st August 1986 British Columbia 1st August 1986 Manitoba 1st August 1986 Nova Scotia 1st August 1986 Newfoundland 1st August 1986 Prince Edward Island 1st August 1986 Quebec 1st August 1986 Yukon Territory 1st August 1986 Saskatchewan 1st November 1986 Alberta 1st February 1987 Northwest Territories 1st April 1988 The French Republic — 1st August 1986 The Hungarian People’s Republic — 1st September 1986 The Grand Duchy of Luxembourg — 1st January 1987 Norway — 1st April 1989 The Portuguese Republic — 1st August 1986 Spain — 1st September 1987 The Swiss Confederation — 1st August 1986 The United States of America — 1st July 1988 G. I. de Deney Clerk of the Privy Council
COMMUNITY CHARGES, SCOTLAND Citation and commencement 1 These Regulations may be cited as the Community Charges (Information Concerning Social Security) (Scotland) Regulations 1989 and shall come into force on 1st April 1990. Interpretation 2 In these Regulations– “ the Act ” means the Abolition of Domestic Rates Etc (Scotland) Act 1987; “the 1986 Act ” means the Social Security Act 1986 ; “appropriate social security office” means an office of the Department of Social Security which is normally open to the public for the receipt of claims for income support and includes an office of the Department of Employment which is normally open to the public for the receipt of claims for unemployment benefit; “community charge benefits” means benefits to which section 20(1)(d) of the 1986 Act refers; “income support” shall be construed in accordance with Part II of the 1986 Act; “partner” means– where a person is a member of a married or unmarried couple , the other member of that couple; or where a person is polygamously married to two or more members of his household, any such member to whom he is so married; “registration officer” means a Community Charges Registration Officer within the meaning of section 12 of the Act; and any reference to a section of the Act includes a reference to that section as read with paragraph 11 of Schedule 5 to the Act and the Community Water Charges (Scotland) Regulations 1988. Supply of relevant information to registration officers 3 1 For the purposes of section 20B of the Act (information concerning social security) it is prescribed that the Secretary of State may, notwithstanding any duty of confidentiality, supply relevant information (within the meaning of that section) to a registration officer. 2 For the purposes of paragraph (c) of section 20B(2) of the Act (meaning of relevant information) there is prescribed information of the description set out in paragraph (3). 3 The information to which paragraph (2) refers is information as to the name, address and date of birth of any person aged 18 or over and any partner aged 18 or over of that person, where that person is awarded income support but has not at the time of the award made a claim at the appropriate social security office– a for community charge benefits, or b where the claim for income support is made prior to 1st April 1990, for housing benefit in the form of a community charge rebate . Signed by authority of the Secretary of State for Social Security. Nicholas Scott Minister of State, Department of Social Security 14th March 1989
SEA FISHERIES Title, commencement and interpretation 1 1 This Order may be cited as the North Western and North Wales Sea Fisheries District (Variation) Order 1989 and shall come into force on 1st April 1989. 2 In this Order “the principal Order ” means the North Western and North Wales Sea Fisheries District Order 1986 . Variation of the principal Order 2 1 For article 4 of the principal Order there shall be substituted the following:– Expenses 4 The expenses of the Committee, other than those which may be required to be incurred under section 17(2) of the Act, shall be chargeable to the constituent Councils, for the financial year ending 31st March 1990 in the respective proportions set out in column 3 of Schedule 1 to this Order opposite the reference to each constituent Council, and for each succeeding financial year in the respective proportions set out in column 4 of that Schedule, and shall be expenses for general county or district purposes. . 2 For Schedule 1 to the principal Order there shall be substituted the following:– SCHEDULE 1 CONSTITUTION AND EXPENSES Articles 3 and 4 Column 1 Column 2 Column 3 Column 4 Constituent Councils Number of representatives Percentage of expenses payable in 1989/90 Percentage of expenses payable after 1989/90 Until 30 June 1989 From 1 July 1989 Cheshire County Council 3 2 15.55 8.10 Cumbria County Council 2 2 10.63 9.25 Lancashire County Council 3 3 26.80 20.60 Sefton Metropolitan Borough Council 2 2 7.87 8.75 Wirral Metropolitan Borough Council 2 2 9.25 10.50 Clwyd County Council 2 2 6.82 6.65 Dyfed County Council 2 2 6.33 6.65 Gwynedd County Council 2 3 16.75 29.50 In Witness whereof the Official Seal of the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food is hereunto affixed on 13th March 1989. John MacGregor Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food Peter Walker Secretary of State for Wales 13th March 1989
TAXES 1 This Order may be cited as the Finance Act 1988 (Commencement) Order 1989. 2 Sections 134 and 135 of the Finance Act 1988 shall come into force on 3rd April 1989. Mackay of Clashfern, C. 13th March 1989
VALUE ADDED TAX 1 This Order may be cited as the Value Added Tax (Self-supply of Construction Services) Order 1989 and shall come into force on 1st April 1989. 2 In this Order “ the Act ” means the Value Added Tax Act 1983. 3 1 Where a person, in the course or furtherance of a business carried on by him, for the purpose of that business and otherwise than for a consideration, performs any of the following services, that is to say– a the construction of a building; or b the extension or other alteration of, or the construction of an annexe to, any building such that additional floor area of not less than 10 per cent of the floor area of the original building is created; or c the construction of any civil engineering work; or d in connection with any such services as are described in sub-paragraph (a), (b) or (c) above, the carrying out of any demolition work contemporaneously with or preparatory thereto, then, subject to each of the conditions specified in paragraph (2) below being satisfied, those services shall be treated for the purposes of the Act as both supplied to him for the purpose of that business and supplied by him in the course or furtherance of it. 2 The conditions mentioned in paragraph (1) above are that– a the value of such services is not less than £100,000; and b such services would, if supplied for a consideration in the course or furtherance of a business carried on by a taxable person, be chargeable to tax at a rate other than nil. 3 The preceding provisions of this article shall apply in relation to any bodies corporate which are treated for the purposes of section 29 of the Act as members of a group as if those bodies were one person, but anything done which would fall to be treated by virtue of this Order as services supplied to and by that person shall be treated as supplied to and by the representative member. 4 1 The value of any supply of services which is to be treated as taking place by virtue of this Order is the open market value of such services. 2 Where any services of a description specified in article 3(1) above are in the process of being performed on the day this Order comes into force, the value of such services for the purposes of this Order shall be the value of such part of those services as are performed on or after that day. Kenneth Carlisle Alan Howarth Two of the Lords Commissioners of Her Majesty’s Treasury 14th March 1989
VALUE ADDED TAX 1 This Order may be cited as the Value Added Tax (Increase of Registration Limits) Order 1989 and shall come into force on the following dates: articles 1, 2(a) and (b) 15th March 1989 article 2(c) 1st June 1989 2 Schedule 1 to the Value Added Tax Act 1983 (provisions as to liability to be registered) shall be amended as follows: a in paragraph 1(1)(a)(i) for the figure “£7,500” there shall be substituted “£8,000”, b in paragraphs 1(1)(a)(ii), 1(1)(b), 1(2) and 4(3) for the figure “£22,100” there shall be substituted “£23,600”, c in paragraphs 1(3), 2(1) and 2(2) for the figure “£21,100” there shall be substituted “£22,600”. Kenneth Carlisle Alan Howarth Two of the Lords Commissioners of Her Majesty’s Treasury 14th March 1989
VALUE ADDED TAX 1 This Order may be cited as the Value Added Tax (Fund-Raising Events and Charities) Order 1989 and shall come into force on 1st April 1989. 2 Group 16 (charities, etc ) of Schedule 5 to the Value Added Tax Act 1983 shall be varied as follows— a by substituting for item 8 the following— 8 The supply to a charity of a publication in any newspaper, journal, poster, programme, annual, leaflet, brochure, pamphlet, periodical or similar publication of an advertisement which is for the raising of money for, or making known the objects or reasons for the objects of, the charity. ; b in note 4(a) by inserting after the word “video” the word “, sterilising”. 3 Schedule 6 to the Value Added Tax Act 1983 shall be varied by adding after Group 11 the following— GROUP 12—FUND-RAISING EVENTS BY CHARITIES AND OTHER QUALIFYING BODIES Item No. 1 The supply of goods and services by a charity in connection with a fund-raising event organised for charitable purposes by a charity or jointly by more than one charity. 2 The supply of goods and services by a qualifying body in connection with a fund-raising event organised exclusively for its own benefit. Notes: 1 For the purposes of items 1 and 2 “fund-raising event” means a fete, ball, bazaar, gala show, performance or similar event, which is separate from and not forming any part of a series or regular run of like or similar events. 2 For the purposes of item 2 “qualifying body” means any non-profit making body mentioned in either section 47(3) of this Act or item 1 of Group 9 of Schedule 6 to this Act. . Kenneth Carlisle Alan Howarth Two of the Lords Commissioners of Her Majesty’s Treasury 14th March 1989
INCOME TAX 1 This Order may be cited as the Income Tax (Indexation) Order 1989. 2 1 The amounts which, unless Parliament otherwise determines, will be treated by virtue of sections 1(4) and 257(9) of the Income and Corporation Taxes Act 1988 as specified for the year 1989–90 in sections 1(2) and 257(1), (2), (3), (5) and (6) of that Act are set out in paragraphs (2) and (3). 2 In section 1(2) of the said Act (basic rate limit)—£20,700. 3 In section 257 of the said Act (personal reliefs)– a in subsection (1)(a) (married allowance)—£4,375; b in subsections (1)(b) (single allowance) and (6) (wife’s earned income relief)—£2,785; c in subsection (2)(a) (married allowance: age 65 to 79)—£5,385; d in subsection (2)(b) (single allowance: age 65 to 79)—£3,400; e in subsection (3)(a) (married allowance: age 80 and over)—£5,565; f in subsection (3)(b) (single allowance: age 80 and over)—£3,540; g in subsection (5) (income limit for age allowance)—£11,400. Kenneth Carlisle Alan Howarth Two of the Lords Commissioners of Her Majesty’s Treasury 14th March 1989
COMMUNITY CHARGES, ENGLAND AND WALES Citation and commencement 1 These Regulations may be cited as the Community Charges (Information Concerning Social Security) Regulations 1989 and shall come into force on 22nd May 1989. Interpretation 2 In these Regulations – “ the Act ” means the Local Government Finance Act 1988; “the 1986 Act ” means the Social Security Act 1986 ; “appropriate social security office” means an office of the Department of Social Security which is normally open to the public for the receipt of claims for income support and includes an office of the Department of Employment which is normally open to the public for the receipt of claims for unemployment benefit; “community charge benefits” means benefits to which section 20(1)(d) of the 1986 Act refers; “income support” shall be construed in accordance with Part II of the 1986 Act; “partner” means – where a person is a member of a married or unmarried couple , the other member of that couple; or where a person is polygamously married to two or more members of his household, any such member to whom he is so married; “registration officer” means a community charges registration officer within the meaning of section 26 of the Act. Supply of relevant information to registration officers 3 1 For the purposes of paragraph 14 of Schedule 2 to the Act (information concerning social security) no duty of confidentiality shall prevent the Secretary of State from disclosing relevant information (within the meaning of that paragraph) to a registration officer for a charging authority. 2 For the purposes of Sub-paragraph (c) of paragraph 14(2) of Schedule 2 to the Act (meaning of relevant information) there is prescribed information of the description set out in paragraphs (3) and (4). 3 For the period from the coming into force of these Regulations until 31st March 1990 (both dates inclusive), the information is information as to the name and address of any person, aged 18 or over and any partner aged 18 or over of that person, where that person is in receipt of income support at any time within that period but is not receiving housing benefit under Part II of the 1986 Act. 4 For the period from 1st April 1990 the information is information as to the name and address of any person, aged 18 or over, and any partner aged 18 or over of that person, where that person is awarded income support but has not at the time of the award, made a claim for community charge benefits at the appropriate Social Security office. Signed by authority of the Secretary of State for Social Security. Nicholas Scott Minister of State,Department of Social Security 14th March 1989
TRANSPORT 1 These Regulations shall be cited as the Service Subsidy Agreements (Tendering) (Amendment) Regulations 1989 and shall come into force on 11th April 1989. 2 The Service Subsidy Agreements (Tendering) Regulations 1985 shall be amended in accordance with the following Regulations. 3 In regulation 3(1)(b)– a for “£4,000” in both places where it occurs there shall be substituted “£8,000”; and b for “£20,000” there shall be substituted “£40,000”. Paul Channon Secretary of State for Transport 3rd March 1989 Malcolm Rifkind Secretary of State for Scotland 8th March 1989 Peter Walker Secretary of State for Wales 9th March 1989
ECCLESIASTICAL LAW, ENGLAND Citation and commencement 1 This Order may be cited as the Grants to the Redundant Churches Fund Order 1989 and shall come into force on 1st April 1989. Period for grants to the Redundant Churches Fund 2 The period beginning with 1st April 1989 and expiring on 31st March 1994 is hereby specified for the purposes of section 1(1) of the Redundant Churches and other Religious Buildings Act 1969. Aggregate Amount of Grants 3 The aggregate amount of the grants that may be paid under section 1(1) of the 1969 Act in the period specified in article 2 of this Order shall not exceed £8,700,000. Nicholas Ridley One of Her Majesty’s Principal Secretaries of State 2nd March 1989 We approve, David Lightbown David MacLean Two of the Lords Commissioners of Her Majesty’s Treasury 13th March 1989
HIGHWAYS, ENGLAND AND WALES 1 The new highways which the Secretary of State proposes to construct along the routes described in Schedule 1 to this Order which connect the Trunk Road with other highways at the places stated in that schedule (the highways along those routes being in this Order referred to as “the slip roads”), shall become trunk roads as from the date when this Order comes into force. 2 The centre line of each of the slip roads is indicated by a heavy black line on the deposited plan. 3 The Secretary of State directs as respects any part of a highway which crosses the route of any of the slip roads that– a where the highway is a highway maintainable at the public expense by a local highway authority, the part in question shall be maintained by that authority, and b where the highway is not a highway so maintainable and is not maintainable under a special enactment or by reason of tenure, enclosure or prescription, the Secretary of State shall be under no duty to maintain the part in question, until, in either case, a date to be specified in a notice given by the Secretary of State to the highway authority for that highway. The date specified will not be later than the date on which the relevant route is opened for the purpose of through traffic. 4 In this Order– i “the deposited plan” means the plan numbered HA 10/YHRO 19 marked “The A15 Trunk Road (Bonby Lodge Slip Roads) Order 1989,” signed by authority of the Secretary of State and deposited at the Department of Transport, Romney House, 43 Marsham Street, London SW1P 3PY; ii “the Trunk Road” means the A15 Trunk Road. 5 This Order shall come into force on 1st April 1989, and may be cited as the A15 Trunk Road (Bonby Lodge Slip Roads) Order 1989. Signed by authority of the Secretary of State J. F. Ballard Regional Director Yorkshire and Humberside Region Department of Transport 6th March 1989
TAXES 1 This Order may be cited as the Capital Gains Tax (Annual Exempt Amount) Order 1989. 2 The amount specified, which by virtue of section 5 of the Capital Gains Tax Act 1979 is, unless Parliament otherwise determines, the exempt amount for the year 1989–90, is £5,400. Kenneth Carlisle Alan Howarth Two of the Lords Commissioners of Her Majesty’s Treasury 14th March 1989
HIGHWAYS, ENGLAND AND WALES 1 The Leeds City Council (Urban Motorway) Special Road Schemes (Revocation) Scheme 1988 is hereby confirmed with modification. 2 The said Scheme as confirmed (hereinafter referred to as “the Scheme”) is set out in the Schedule hereto and copies of the Scheme are deposited at the Department of Transport and at the offices of Leeds City Council, at the Information Centre, Ground Floor, Civic Hall, Leeds 1. 3 The Scheme will become operative on the date on which notice that it has been confirmed is first published in accordance with paragraph 1 of Schedule 2 to the Highways Act 1980. 4 This Instrument may be cited as the Leeds City Council (Urban Motorway) Special Road Schemes (Revocation) Scheme 1988 Confirmation Instrument 1989. Signed by authority of the Secretary of State J. F. Ballard Regional Director Yorkshire and Humberside Region Department of Transport 6th March 1989