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FIRE SERVICES Citation and commencement 1 These Regulations may be cited as the Combined Fire Authorities (Protection from Personal Liability) (England) Regulations 1997, and shall come into force on 27th December 1997. Interpretation 2 In these Regulations “the 1947 Act ” means the Fire Services Act 1947 , and “combination scheme” means a combination scheme under that Act. Protection from personal liability 3 1 Where, by virtue of section 18(3) of the Local Government Act 1992, an order under section 17 of that Act provides, or has provided— a that, subject to any combination scheme, a district is to become the area of a fire authority for the purposes of the 1947 Act; or b that, for the purposes of the making of any combination scheme, the area of a district is to be treated as an area which would become the area of a fire authority by virtue of the order; paragraph (2) below shall apply in relation to a combined fire authority constituted by a combination scheme which includes such an area. 2 A combined fire authority constituted by such a combination scheme shall, for the purposes of section 265 of the Public Health Act 1875 and section 39 of the Local Government (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 1976 (protection of members and officers etc. from personal liability), be treated as if it were a local authority. George Howarth Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State Home Office 25th November 1997
FIRE SERVICES Citation and commencement 1 This Order may be cited as the Combined Fire Authorities (Protection from Personal Liability) (Wales) Order 1997 and shall come into force on 27th December 1997. Interpretation 2 In this Order “the 1947 Act ” means the Fire Services Act 1947 and “combination scheme” means a combination scheme made under that Act. Protection from personal liability 3 1 This article applies in relation to a combined fire authority which has been constituted by a combination scheme which comprises only new principal areas and which, in accordance with section 23 of the Local Government (Wales) Act 1994, was made before 1st April 1996. 2 A combined fire authority in relation to which this article applies shall, for the purposes of section 265 of the Public Health Act 1875 and section 39 of the Local Government (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 1976 (protection of members and officers etc. from personal liability) be treated as if it were a local authority. George Howarth Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State Home Office 25th November 1997
PENSIONS Citation and commencement 1 1 This Order may be cited as the Occupational Pensions (Revaluation) Order 1997. 2 This Order shall come into force on 1st January 1998. The revaluation percentage for each revaluation period 2 For the purposes of paragraph 2(1) of Schedule 3 to the Pension Schemes Act 1993, the revaluation percentage for each revaluation period specified in column 1 below is the appropriate percentage specified in column 2. Column 1 Column 2 Revaluation period Revaluation percentage 1st January 1986–31st December 1997 67.1% 1st January 1987–31st December 1997 62.1% 1st January 1988–31st December 1997 55.5% 1st January 1989–31st December 1997 47.1% 1st January 1990–31st December 1997 36.8% 1st January 1991–31st December 1997 23.3% 1st January 1992–31st December 1997 18.5% 1st January 1993–31st December 1997 14.3% 1st January 1994–31st December 1997 12.3% 1st January 1995–31st December 1997 09.9% 1st January 1996–31st December 1997 05.8% 1st January 1997–31st December 1997 03.6% Signed by authority of the Secretary of State for Social Security. John Y. Denham Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State, Department of Social Security 25th November 1997
SOCIAL SECURITY Citation and commencement 1 These Regulations may be cited as the Social Security (National Insurance Number Information: Exemption) (No. 2) Regulations 1997 and shall come into force on 1st December 1997 immediately after the Social Security (National Insurance Number Information: Exemption) Regulations 1997 . Amendment of regulation 2A of the Income Support (General) Regulations 1987 2 In regulation 2A(b) of the Income Support (General) Regulations 1987 (disapplication of section 1(1A) of the Administration Act) for the words “5th October 1988” there shall be substituted the words “5th October 1998”. Signed by authority of the Secretary of State for Social Security. John Y. Denham Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State, Department of Social Security 25th November 1997
SOCIAL SECURITY Citation, commencement and interpretation 1 1 These Regulations may be cited as the Income-related Benefits (Miscellaneous Amendments) Regulations 1997 and, subject to paragraph (2), shall come into force on 1st June 1998. 2 In so far as these Regulations amend provisions relating to disability working allowance or family credit they shall come into force on 2nd June 1998 and in relation to any particular claimant they shall have effect, where that claimant has an award of either of those benefits— a which expires on 1st June 1998, on 2nd June 1998; or b which expires after 1st June 1998, on the day following the expiration of that award. 3 For the purposes of paragraph (2) above “claimant” means a person claiming the benefit concerned. Common amendments 2 1 In each of the regulations specified in paragraph (2) below (maximum deductions from income in respect of child care charges), for the words “£60 per week” there shall be substituted the words “whichever of the sums specified in paragraph (1A) below applies in his case”. 2 The specified regulations to which paragraph (1) above refers are— a regulation 13(1)(c) of the Council Tax Benefit (General) Regulations 1992 ; b regulation 15(1)(c) of the Disability Working Allowance (General) Regulations 1991 ; c regulation 13(1)(c) of the Family Credit (General) Regulations 1987 ; d regulation 21(1)(c) of the Housing Benefit (General) Regulations 1987 . 3 After paragraph (1) of each of the regulations specified in paragraph (2) above the following paragraph shall be inserted— 1A The maximum deduction to which paragraph (1)(c) above refers shall be— a where the claimant’s family includes only one child in respect of whom relevant child care charges are paid, £60 per week; b where the claimant’s family includes more than one child in respect of whom relevant child care charges are paid, £100 per week. . 4 In the definition of “relevant child care charges” in each of the regulations specified in paragraph (5) below (treatment of child care charges) for the words “eleventh birthday” each time they appear there shall be substituted the words “twelfth birthday”. 5 The regulations to which paragraph (4) above refers are— a regulation 13A(2) of the Council Tax Benefit (General) Regulations 1992; b regulation 15A(2) of the Disability Working Allowance (General) Regulations 1991; c regulation 13A(2) of the Family Credit (General) Regulations 1987; and d regulation 21A(2) of the Housing Benefit (General) Regulations 1987. Signed by authority of the Secretary of State for Social Security. Keith Bradley Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State, Department of Social Security 25th November 1997
POLICE Citation, commencement and interpretation 1 1 These Regulations may be cited as the Police Cadets (Scotland) Amendment Regulations 1997 and shall come into force on 17th December 1997 but shall have effect– a for the purposes of regulation 2, as from 1st September 1995; b for the purposes of regulation 3, as from 1st September 1996; and c for the purposes of regulation 4, as from 1st September 1997. 2 In these Regulations, “the principal Regulations ” means the Police Cadets (Scotland) Regulations 1968 . Amendment of the principal Regulations 2 For the Table in Schedule 1 to the principal Regulations (which contains scales of pay) there is substituted the following Table:– TABLE Age Annual Pay Under 17 years £4,752 17 years £5,043 18 years or over £5,610 3 1 Schedule 1 to the principal Regulations (pay), as amended by regulation 2 above, shall be further amended as follows. 2 For the Table in Schedule 1 to the principal Regulations (as substituted by regulation 2 above), there is substituted the following Table:– TABLE Age Annual Pay Under 17 years £4,917 17 years £5,220 18 years or over £5,805 . 4 1 Schedule 1 to the principal Regulations (pay), as amended by regulations 2 and 3 above, shall be further amended as follows. 2 For the Table in Schedule 1 to the principal Regulations (as substituted by regulation 3 above), there is substituted the following Table:– TABLE Age Annual Pay Under 17 years £5,088 17 years £5,403 18 years or over £6,009 . 5 In Schedule 2 to the principal Regulations (which relates to charges for board and lodging), for the sum “£642” there shall be substituted the sum “£708”. Revocation 6 The Police Cadets (Scotland) Amendment Regulations 1995 are hereby revoked. Henry B McLeish Minister of State, Scottish Office St Andrew’s House, Edinburgh 17th November 1997
RATING AND VALUATION Citation, commencement and interpretation 1 1 This Order may be cited as the Non-Domestic Rating (Rural Settlements) (England) Order 1997 and shall come into force on 19th December 1997. 2 In this Order “the 1988 Act ” means the Local Government Finance Act 1988. Designation of rural areas 2 1 There are designated as rural areas for the purposes of section 42A (rural settlement lists) of the 1988 Act— a each parish, and each unparished area, mentioned or described in either of the Schedules to each of the housing orders, and b each area mentioned or described in article 2(c) of each of those orders specified in Part 1 of Schedule 1, including any part of such an area which is, by virtue of its omission from the area delineated on any map referred to in such an order, not designated by such an order as a rural area; c the parishes named in the second column of Part 1 of Schedule 2 in the counties named in the first column, and d the areas described in Part 2 of that Schedule. 2 In this article— ‘the housing orders’ means the orders specified in Parts 1 and 2 of Schedule 1, being orders designating rural areas for the purposes of section 17 (the right to acquire) of the Housing Act 1996 and section 1AA(3)(a) (additional right to enfranchise) of the Leasehold Reform Act 1967 , and references to grid lines are to lines on the Ordnance Survey National Grid. Rateable value limits 3 1 £5,000 is the amount prescribed as the maximum amount of rateable value for the purposes of section 43(6B)(b) (mandatory relief for general stores and post offices) of the 1988 Act. 2 £10,000 is the amount prescribed as the maximum amount of rateable value for the purposes of section 47(3A)(b) (discretionary relief in rural areas) of the 1988 Act. 3 This article applies in relation to hereditaments shown in local non-domestic rating lists for billing authorities in England. Signed by authority of the Secretary of State Hilary Armstrong Minister of State, Department of the Environment, Transport and the Regions 21st November 1997
ROAD TRAFFIC Citation and commencement 1 These Regulations may be cited as the Road Vehicles (Construction and Use) (Amendment) (No. 6) Regulations 1997 and shall come into force on 31st December 1997. Amendment of the Road Vehicles (Construction and Use) Regulations 1986 2 1 The Road Vehicles (Construction and Use) Regulations 1986 shall be further amended as follows. 2 In paragraphs (10) and (10B)(c) of regulation 61 (emissions) for “1st January 1998” in both places where those words occur there shall be substituted “1st May 1998”. Signed by authority of the Secretary of State Helene Hayman Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State, Department of the Environment, Transport and the Regions 10th December 1997
ROAD TRAFFIC 1 This Order may be cited as The A41 Trunk Road (Camden) (Temporary Prohibition of Traffic) (No. 3) Order 1997, and shall come into force on 24th November 1997. 2 This Order is made because the Traffic Director for London is satisfied that traffic on the roads, or lengths of road, mentioned in the schedule to this Order should be prohibited because works are being or are proposed to be executed on or near those roads or lengths of road. 3 During the period starting at 00.01 hours on 25th November 1997 for a period of three months, or when those works have been completed, whichever is the sooner, no person shall cause or permit any vehicle to stop at any time in the roads, or lengths of roads, specified in the schedule to this Order. 4 1 The prohibitions specified in article 3 above shall apply only during such times and to such extent as shall from time to time be indicated by traffic signs specified by regulations or authorised under section 64 of the Road Traffic Regulation Act 1984. 2 The prohibitions specified in article 3 above shall not apply in respect of— i any vehicle being used for the purpose of those works, or for fire brigade, ambulance or police purposes, or ii anything done with the permission or at the direction of a police constable in uniform or a traffic warden. 5 In so far as, and during such time as, the prohibition specified in article 3 above is in force, the provisions of the A41 Trunk Road (Camden) Red Route Experimental (No. 2) Traffic Order 1997 are hereby suspended so far as they relate to the roads or lengths of roads specified in the schedule to this Order. Signed in accordance with a direction from the Secretary of State. Derek Turner Traffic Director for London 21st November 1997
LOCAL GOVERNMENT, ENGLAND AND WALES Citation and commencement 1 This Order may be cited as the Local Government Act 1988 (Defined Activities) (Exemption) (Bath and North East Somerset District Council) Order 1997 and shall come into force on 1st April 1998. Exemption of housing management 2 The housing management work of the council of the district of Bath and North East Somerset shall not be treated as a defined activity so long as it is undertaken during the period beginning with 1 April 1998 and ending on 31 August 1999. Signed by authority of the Secretary of State, Hilary Armstrong Minister of State, Department of the Environment, Transport and the Regions 8th December 1997
RATING AND VALUATION Citation 1 This Order may be cited as the Local Government and Rating Act 1997 (Commencement No.3) Order 1997. Commencement of provisions 2 Subject to article 3 below, the following provisions of the Local Government and Rating Act 1997 shall come into force on 1st December 1997:– a section 5 and Schedule 2 (relief from non-domestic rates for general stores etc. in rural settlements: Scotland); b section 8 (orders under section 6 and Schedule 2); c section 33(1) (minor and consequential amendments), insofar as it relates to the provision mentioned in paragraph (d) below; and d paragraph 29(b) of Schedule 3 (amendment of Schedule 12 to the Local Government Finance Act 1992 ). Transitional provision 3 Nothing in article 2(a) above shall result in a rural settlement list having effect for a financial year which commenced prior to 1st April 1998. Malcolm Chisholm Parliamentary Under Secretary of State, Scottish Office St Andrew’s House, Edinburgh 21st November 1997
ROAD TRAFFIC Commencement and citation 1 This Order may be cited as The A1 Trunk Road (Islington) Red Route Traffic Order 1993 Variation Order 1997, and shall come into force on 5th December 1997. Variations 2 The A1 Trunk Road (Islington) Red Route Traffic Order 1993 is varied as provided by the following provisions of this Order. 3 Item 49 in part VI of Schedule 3 is deleted. 4 Item 50 in part VI of Schedule 3 is substituted as follows— 50 Between a point 10.5 metres south of the southern kerbline of White Lion Street and a point opposite the party wall of Nos 7 and 9 Islington High Street. 5 A new item 10A is added to part II of Schedule 3 as follows— ISLINGTON HIGH STREET West Side 10A Between a point 3.0 metres north of the party wall of Nos 31 and 33-37 Islington High Street and a point 6.0 metres north of the northern kerbline of White Lion Street. 6 A new item 51A is added to Schedule 4 as follows— 51A Between a point 6.0 metres north of the northern kerbline of White Lion Street and a point 10.5 metres south of the southern kerbline of White Lion Street. TRO 272 Signed in accordance with a direction from the Secretary of State. Derek Turner Traffic Director for London 21st November 1997
ROAD TRAFFIC Commencement and citation 1 This Order may be cited as The A1 Trunk Road (Islington High Street) Red Route (Prohibited Turn) Traffic Order 1997, and shall come into force on 5th December 1997. Prohibited turn 2 Subject to the provisions of article 3 below, no person shall cause or permit a vehicle proceeding north in Islington High Street in the London Borough of Islington, on arriving at the junction with Liverpool Road, to turn south into Islington High Street. 3 Nothing in article 2 above shall apply to anything done with the permission or at the direction of a police constable in uniform or a traffic warden. TRO 271 Signed in accordance with a direction from the Secretary of State Derek Turner Traffic Director for London 21st November 1997
JUDGMENTS 1 This Order may be cited as the Civil Jurisdiction and Judgments Act 1982 (Provisional and Protective Measures) (Scotland) Order 1997 and shall come into force on 1st January 1998. 2 The Court of Session shall have power to do anything mentioned in section 27(1) or 28 of the Civil Jurisdiction and Judgments Act 1982 in relation to proceedings of the following descriptions, namely:– a proceedings commenced otherwise than in ... a 2005 Hague Convention State ; b proceedings whose subject-matter is not within scope of the 2005 Hague Convention as determined by Articles 1 and 2 of that Convention. 3 The Court of Session shall have power– a to grant interim interdict under subsection (1)(c) of section 27 of the Civil Jurisdiction and Judgments Act 1982; b to act as described in section 28 of that Act, in relation to proceedings which are to be commenced otherwise than in ... a 2005 Hague Convention State . N. H. Nicholls Clerk of the Privy Council
EDUCATION, SCOTLAND Citation and commencement 1 These Regulations may be cited as the Grants for School Improvements (Scotland) Regulations 1997 and shall come into force on 19th December 1997. Grants for school improvements 2 1 The Secretary of State may pay to education authorities in accordance with these Regulations grants in respect of capital expenditure incurred or to be incurred by them for or in connection with either of the following purposes:– a the repair, improvement, or replacement of any building used or intended to be used by them for the purposes of a school; b the improvement of facilities for information technology in schools under their management. 2 In paragraph (1) “building” includes any fixtures and fittings affixed to, and any playground area associated with, the building. Determination and payment of grants 3 1 Grants under these Regulations shall be of such amounts and paid at such rates and in respect of such periods as the Secretary of State may determine. 2 Grants under these Regulations may be paid as single payments or by instalments of such amounts and at such times as the Secretary of State may determine. Conditions for payment of grant 4 1 No payment of grant shall be made except in response to an application in writing from an education authority to the Secretary of State. 2 The Secretary of State may from time to time determine further conditions on the fulfilment of which the making of any payment in pursuance of these Regulations shall be dependent. 3 Where conditions have been determined in pursuance of paragraph (2) no grant shall be payable unless such conditions have either been fulfilled or been withdrawn in pursuance of paragraph (4). 4 The Secretary of State may determine to withdraw or, after consulting the education authority, vary conditions determined in pursuance of paragraph (2). Requirements relating to grants 5 1 Any grant paid under these Regulations shall be used only for the purposes for which it was paid. 2 An education authority to whom a payment of grant has been made shall, if so required by the Secretary of State, provide him with such information as may be required to enable him to verify that any grant has been properly paid and applied under these Regulations. 3 An education authority to whom a payment of grant has been made shall comply with such requirements as may be determined by the Secretary of State in the case in question. 4 Requirements determined under paragraph (3) may include requirements as to– a the repayment of grant; b the payment to the Secretary of State of sums related to the value of assets acquired, provided or improved with the aid of grant; or c the payment of interest on sums due to the Secretary of State. Brian Wilson Minister of State, Scottish Office St Andrew’s House, Edinburgh 19th November 1997
NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE, ENGLAND AND WALES Citation and commencement 1 These Regulations may be cited as the National Health Service (Vocational Training) Amendment Regulations 1997 and shall come into force on 1st January 1998. Amendment of the National Health Service (Vocational Training) Regulations 1979 2 In the National Health Service (Vocational Training) Regulations 1979 , in regulation 2(1) (interpretation), for the definition of “trainee general practitioner” there shall be substituted the following definition— “trainee general practitioner”— means a “General Practice ( GP ) Registrar”, as defined in regulations made under section 29 of the Act ; in relation to Scotland and Northern Ireland, has the meaning assigned to it in regulations made, respectively, under section 19 of the National Health Service (Scotland) Act 1978 and article 56 of the Health and Personal Social Services (Northern Ireland) Order 1972 ; and includes a practitioner who is being trained in general practice under an arrangement approved by the Armed Services General Practice Approval Board; . Frank Dobson One of Her Majesty’s Principal Secretaries of State, Department of Health 24th November 1997
NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE, ENGLAND AND WALES Citation and commencement 1 This Order may be cited as the Staffordshire Ambulance Service National Health Service Trust (Establishment) Amendment Order 1997 and shall come into force on 1st December 1997. Amendment of NHS trust Establishment Order 2 In Article 4 of the Staffordshire Ambulance Service National Health Service Trust (Establishment) Order 1991 for “5 non-executive” there shall be substituted “4 non-executive” and for “5 executive” there shall be substituted “4 executive”. Signed by authority of the Secretary of State for Health Alan Milburn Minister of State, Department of Health 21st November 1997
TELECOMMUNICATIONS 1 This Order may be cited as the Public Telecommunication System Designation (TotalTel International Inc.) Order 1997 and shall come into force on 23rd December 1997. 2 Each of the Applicable Systems is hereby designated as a public telecommunication system. Barbara Roche, Parliamentary Under Secretary of State for Small Firms, Trade and Industry Department of Trade and Industry 20th November 1997
TELECOMMUNICATIONS 1 This Order may be cited as the Public Telecommunication System Designation (American Telemedia Limited) Order 1997 and shall come into force on 23rd December 1997. 2 Each of the Applicable Systems is hereby designated as a public telecommunication system. Barbara Roche, Parliamentary Under Secretary of State for Small Firms, Trade and Industry, Department of Trade and Industry 20th November 1997
TELECOMMUNICATIONS 1 This Order may be cited as the Public Telecommunication System Designation (WORLDxCHANGE Communications Limited) Order 1997 and shall come into force on 23rd December 1997. 2 Each of the Applicable Systems is hereby designated as a public telecommunication system. Barbara Roche, Parliamentary Under Secretary of State for Small Firms, Trade and Industry Department of Trade and Industry 20th November 1997