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TELECOMMUNICATIONS 1 This Order may be cited as the Public Telecommunication System Designation (Shropshire Cable & Telecoms Limited) Order 1997 and shall come into force on 7th January 1998. 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 3rd December 1997
TELECOMMUNICATIONS 1 This Order may be cited as the Public Telecommunication System Designation (Sussex Cable & Telecoms Limited) Order 1997 and shall come into force on 7th January 1998. 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 3rd December 1997
PLANT HEALTH Title and commencement 1 This Order may be cited as the Plant Health (Great Britain) (Amendment) (No. 2) Order 1997 and shall come into force on 1st January 1998. Amendment of the Plant Health (Great Britain) Order 1993 2 1 The Plant Health (Great Britain) Order 1993 shall be amended in accordance with paragraphs (2) and (3) below. 2 In article 2(1) (Interpretation) for the definition of “Directive 95/44/ EC ” there shall be substituted the following— “Directive 95/44/EC ” means Commission Directive 95/44/EC establishing the conditions under which certain harmful organisms, plants, plant products and other objects listed in Annexes I to V to Council Directive 77/93/ EEC may be introduced into or moved within the Community or certain protected zones thereof, for trial or scientific purposes and for work on varietal selections, as amended by Commission Directive 97/46/EC ; . 3 In Schedule 16 there shall be inserted at the end the following— Council Directive 97/3/EC OJ No. L27, 30.1.97, p. 30. Commission Directive 97/46/EC OJ No. L204, 31.7.97, p. 43. . Jeff Rooker Minister of State, Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food 4th December 1997 Sewel Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State, Scottish Office 1st December 1997 Signed by authority of the Secretary of State for Wales Win Griffiths Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State, Welsh Office 8th December 1997
HIGHWAYS, ENGLAND AND WALES 1 1 This Order may be cited as the A102 Trunk Road (Port Greenwich Development Slip Roads) Order 1997 and shall come into force on 8th January 1998. 2 In this Order all measurements of distance are measured along the routes of the relevant highways. 2 The new highways which the Secretary of State proposes to construct along the routes described in the Schedule to this Order shall become trunk roads from the date when this Order comes into force. 3 The centre lines of the new trunk roads are indicated by heavy black lines on the plan numbered LRO-B 64/E5330/5/1, marked “The A102 Trunk Road (Port Greenwich Development Slip Roads) Order 1997”, signed by authority of the Secretary of State for Transport and deposited at the Highways Agency, St Christopher House, Southwark Street, London SE1 0TE. Signed by authority of the Secretary of State for Transport R T Thorndike Director Network and Customer Services (London) Highways Agency 8th December 1997
MEDICINES Title and Commencement 1 This Order may be cited as the Medicines (Veterinary Drugs) (Pharmacy and Merchants' List) (Amendment) Order 1997 and shall come into force on 1st January 1998. Amendment 2 The Medicines (Veterinary Drugs) (Pharmacy and Merchants' List) Order 1992 shall be amended so as to substitute for Schedules 1 to 5 the Schedules numbered 1 to 5 set out in the Schedule to this Order. Signed by authority of the Secretary of State for Health Jay Minister of State, Department of Health 3rd December 1997 Sewel Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State, Scottish Office 1st December 1997 Signed by authority of the Secretary of State for Wales Win Griffiths Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State, Welsh Office 8th December 1997 Jeff Rooker Minister of State, Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food 28th November 1997 Sealed with the Official Seal of the Department of Health and Social Services for Northern Ireland this D Gowdy Permanent Secretary 3rd day of December 1997 Sealed with the Official Seal of the Department of Agriculture for Northern Ireland this P J Small Permanent Secretary 4th day of December 1997 We consent, Jim Dowd Graham Allen Two of the Lords Commissioners of Her Majesty’s Treasury 5th December 1997
LOCAL GOVERNMENT, ENGLAND AND WALES Citation and commencement 1 This Order may be cited as the Local Government Act 1988 (Defined Activities) (Exemption) (Stevenage Borough Council and Three Rivers District Council) Order 1997 and shall come into force on 1st January 1998. Exemption 2 The management of sports and leisure facilities shall not be treated as a defined activity so long as it is carried out by Stevenage Borough Council during the period beginning with 1st January 1998 and ending with 31st May 1999 at the following premises— i Stevenage Arts and Leisure Centre, Lytton Way; ii Stevenage Swimming Pool, St. George Way; iii John Henry Newman Leisure Centre, Hitchin Road. 3 The management of sports and leisure facilities shall not be treated as a defined activity so long as it is carried out by Three Rivers District Council during the period beginning with 1st June 1998 and ending with 31st May 2000 at Sir James Altham Swimming Pool, Little Oxhey Lane, South Oxhey. Signed by authority of the Secretary of State Hilary Armstrong Minister of State, Department of the Environment, Transport and the Regions 8th December 1997
VALUE ADDED TAX 1 These Regulations may be cited as the Value Added Tax (Amendment) (No. 5) Regulations 1997 and shall come into force on 1st January 1998. 2 The Value Added Tax Regulations 1995 shall be amended as follows. 3 In regulation 89 after the word “contract” there shall be inserted “(other than one of a description falling within regulation 93 below)”. 4 In regulation 90(1) after the words “where services” there shall be inserted “, except those to which regulation 93 applies,”. 5 For regulation 93 there shall be substituted— 93 1 Where services, or services together with goods, are supplied in the course of the construction, alteration, demolition, repair or maintenance of a building or any civil engineering work under a contract which provides for payment for such supplies to be made periodically or from time to time, those services or goods and services shall be treated as separately and successively supplied at the earliest of the following times— a each time that a payment is received by the supplier, b each time that the supplier issues a VAT invoice, or c to the extent that they have not already been treated as supplied by virtue of sub-paragraphs (a) and (b) above and subject to paragraph (2) below, the day which falls eighteen months after the date on which those services were performed. 2 Sub-paragraph (1)(c) above does not apply unless the services were performed on or after 9th December 1997. Richard Allen Commissioner of Customs and Excise New King’s Beam House 22 Upper Ground London SE1 9PJ 9th December 1997
MERCHANT SHIPPING Citation and commencement 1 These Regulations may be cited as the Merchant Shipping (Master’s Discretion) Regulations 1997 and shall come into force on 31st December 1997. Application 2 These Regulations apply to— a United Kingdom ships wherever they may be; b ships other than United Kingdom ships while they are within United Kingdom waters; and c hovercraft registered in the United Kingdom wherever they may be. Master’s discretion 3 The owner, charterer or manager of a ship or any other person shall not prevent or restrict the master of the ship from taking or executing any decision which, in the master’s professional judgement, is necessary for the safe navigation of the ship. Application to hovercraft 4 In the application of these Regulations to hovercraft, references in regulation 3 above to a ship shall be taken to include references to a hovercraft and references to the master of the ship shall be taken to include references to the captain of the hovercraft. Penalties 5 Any contravention of these Regulations by any person without reasonable excuse shall be an offence punishable on summary conviction by a fine not exceeding the statutory maximum and on conviction on indictment by imprisonment for a term not exceeding two years or a fine, or both. Saving 6 These Regulations shall be without predudice to the rights and powers of pilots and harbour masters exercisable in the performance of their functions. Signed by authority of the Secretary of State for Transport Glenda Jackson Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State, Department of the Environment, Transport and the Regions 2nd December 1997
LOCAL GOVERNMENT, ENGLAND AND WALES Citation and commencement 1 This Order may be cited as the Local Government Act 1988 (Defined Activities) (Exemption) (Easington District Council, Epping Forest District Council and London Borough of Merton) Order 1997 and shall come into force on 1st January 1998. Exemption of sports and leisure facilities management carried out by Easington District Council 2 The management of sports and leisure facilities by the council of the district of Easington shall not be treated as a defined activity so long as it is carried out at the following leisure centres: a the Peterlee Leisure Centre, St. Cuthbert’s Way, Peterlee; and b the Seaham Leisure Centre, Recreation Ground, Deneside, Seaham during the period beginning with 1st January 1998 and ending on 31st December 1998. Exemption of maintenance of ground carried out by Epping Forest District Council 3 The maintenance of ground by the council of the district of Epping Forest shall not be treated as a defined activity so long as it is carried out within their area during the period beginning with 1st January 1998 and ending on 31st December 1998. Exemption of other cleaning carried out by the London Borough of Merton 4 Other cleaning by the council of the London Borough of Merton shall not be treated as a defined activity so long as it consists of the cleaning (other than by the emptying of gullies) of any street in their area and is carried out before 24th October 1998. 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, commencement and interpretation 1 1 This Order may be cited as the Non-Domestic Rating (Rural Settlements) (Wales) Order 1997 and shall come into force on 31st December 1997. 2 In this Order “the 1988 Act ” means the Local Government Finance Act 1988. Designation of rural areas 2 The following areas are designated as rural areas for the purposes of section 42A (rural settlement list) of the 1988 Act— a the areas of the communities mentioned in Part I of the Schedule to this Order, and b the areas described in paragraph 1 of Part II of the Schedule to this Order. Rateable value limits 3 In relation to a hereditament shown in the local non-domestic rating list of a Welsh billing authority— a £5,000 is the amount prescribed as the maximum amount of rateable value for the purposes of section 43(6B)(b) (mandatory relief for qualifying general stores and post offices) of the 1988 Act; and b £10,000 is the amount prescribed as the maximum amount of rateable value for the purposes of section 47(3A)(b) (discretionary rate relief in rural areas) of the 1988 Act. Signed by authority of the Secretary of State for Wales Win Griffiths Parliamentary Under Secretary of State, Welsh Office 4th December 1997
LOCAL GOVERNMENT, SCOTLAND Citation and commencement 1 This Order may be cited as the Local Government Property Commission (Scotland) (Winding Up) Order 1997 and shall come into force on 30th September 1998. Winding up of Property Commission 2 The Local Government Property Commission (Scotland), established by the Local Government Property Commission (Scotland) Order 1995 , are hereby wound up and their assets transferred to the Secretary of State. Revocations 3 The following Orders are hereby revoked:— a the Local Authorities (Property Transfer) (Scotland) Order 1995 ; b the Local Government Property Commission (Scotland) Order 1995; and c the Local Authorities (Property Transfer) (Scotland) Amendment Order 1996 Malcolm Chisholm Parliamentary Under Secretary of State, Scottish Office St Andrew’s House, Edinburgh 2nd December 1997
LOCAL GOVERNMENT, SCOTLAND Citation 1 This Order may be cited as the Local Government (Contracts) Act 1997 (Commencement No.2) Order 1997. Commencement 2 1 Subsections (2)(e) and (f) and (3) of section 3 of the Local Government (Contracts) Act 1997, in so far as they confer power on the Secretary of State to make regulations, shall come into force in Scotland on 2nd December 1997. 2 Sections 2 and 4 to 9 of that Act, and section 3 of that Act except in so far as it is brought into force by paragraph (1) above, shall come into force in Scotland on 1st January 1998. Malcolm Chisholm Parliamentary Under Secretary of State, Scottish Office St Andrew’s House, Edinburgh 1st December 1997
LOCAL GOVERNMENT, SCOTLAND Citation and commencement 1 These Regulations may be cited as the Local Authorities (Contracts) (Scotland) Regulations and shall come into force on 1st January 1998. Interpretation 2 In these Regulations– “the 1973 Act ” means the Local Government (Scotland) Act 1973 ; “auditor”, in relation to a local authority, means the person responsible for auditing the accounts of that authority under section 96(4) of the 1973 Act ; “certificate” means a certificate issued by a local authority in satisfying the certification requirements in relation to a contract; “local authority” means an authority specified in section 1(3)(d) of the Local Government (Contracts) Act 1997; “monitoring officer”, in relation to a local authority, means the officer designated by that authority under section 5(1)(a) of the Local Government and Housing Act 1989 ; “proper officer” has the same meaning as in section 235(3) of the 1973 Act. Copies of certificates 3 A local authority shall ensure that a copy of every certificate issued by them is given to– a their auditor; b their monitoring officer; and c each of the persons with whom the authority have entered, or are to enter, into the contract in relation to which the certificate is issued. Signature of certificates 4 A local authority shall ensure that a certificate issued by them is signed by the proper officer. Matters to be dealt with in certificates 5 1 Where, in relation to a contract, a local authority– a states in a certificate that it had or has powers to enter into the contract; and b specifies that the statutory provision, or one of the statutory provisions, conferring the power is section 69 of the 1973 Act, the authority shall specify in the certificate each statutory provision conferring a relevant function, or, where there are two or more relevant functions, the statutory provisions conferring the main relevant functions. 2 For the purposes of this regulation, in relation to a contract, a function is a relevant function if the contract is calculated to facilitate, or is conducive or incidental to, the discharge of the function. Malcolm Chisholm Parliamentary Under Secretary of State, Scottish Office St Andrew’s House, Edinburgh 2nd December 1997
MEDICINES Citation and commencement 1 These Regulations may be cited as the Medicines (Pharmacies) (Applications for Registration and Fees) Amendment Regulations 1997 and shall come into force on 1st January 1998. Amendment of the Medicines (Pharmacies) (Applications for Registration and Fees) Regulations 1973 2 In regulation 3 of the Medicines (Pharmacies) (Applications for Registration and Fees) Regulations 1973 (fees)— a in paragraph (1) (fee for registration of premises), for “£128” substitute “£131” and for “£69” (fee where premises are in Northern Ireland) substitute “£71”; b in paragraph (2) (retention fee), for “£82” substitute “£84” and for “£64” (fee where premises are in Northern Ireland) substitute “£66”; c in paragraph (3) (additional sum by way of penalty), for “£264” substitute “£270” and for “£197” (sum where premises are in Northern Ireland) substitute “£202”. Revocation 3 The Medicines (Pharmacies) (Applications for Registration and Fees) Amendment Regulations 1996 are hereby revoked. Signed by the authority of the Secretary of State for Health, Alan Milburn Minister of State, Department of Health December 1997 Signed by the authority of the Secretary of State for Wales, Win Griffiths Parliamentary Under Secretary of State, The Welsh Office December 1997 Sam Galbraith Minister of Health, The Scottish Office December 1997 Sealed with the Official Seal of the Department of Health and Social Services for Northern Ireland this D C Gowdy Permanent Secretary 3rd day of December 1997.
INCOME TAX Citation, commencement and effect 1 1 These Regulations may be cited as the Friendly Societies (Modification of the Corporation Tax Acts) (Amendment No. 2) Regulations 1997 and shall come into force on 31st December 1997. 2 Regulations 3 and 4 shall have effect for accounting periods of friendly societies beginning after 5th March 1997. Interpretation 2 In these Regulations “the principal Regulations ” means the Friendly Societies (Modification of the Corporation Tax Acts) Regulations 1997 and “regulation” means a regulation of the principal Regulations. Amendments to the principal Regulations 3 Regulation 16 shall be omitted. 4 In regulation 21, paragraph (2) shall be omitted. 5 After regulation 53 there shall be inserted the following regulation— Modification of paragraph 18 of Schedule 12 to the Finance Act 1997 53A 1 Paragraph (2) prescribes a modification of paragraph 18 of Schedule 12 to the Finance Act 1997 . 2 For the words from “which” to the end there shall be substituted the words “made up for the purposes of an investigation into the financial condition of a friendly society under section 46 or 47 of the Friendly Societies Act 1992 ”. 3 This regulation shall have effect in relation to periods for which accounts of friendly societies are made up ending on or after 26th November 1996. Graham Allen Jim Dowd Two of the Lords Commissioners of Her Majesty’s Treasury 5th December 1997
TREASURY SOLICITOR Citation, commencement, revocation and saving 1 1 These Rules may be cited as the Treasury Solicitor (Crown’s Nominee) Rules 1997 and shall come into force on 1st January 1998. 2 Subject to paragraph (3), the Treasury Solicitor (Crown’s Nominee) Rules 1931 and the Treasury Solicitor (Crown’s Nominee) (Amendment) Rules 1968 are hereby revoked. 3 Rules 3 and 4 of the said Rules of 1931 (which make provision for the preparation and auditing of an abstract account in relation to each year ending on 31st December) shall continue to have effect in relation to the preparation and auditing, after the commencement of these Rules, of an abstract account in relation to the year ending on 31st December 1997. Interpretation 2 In these Rules, “Treasury Solicitor” means the Treasury Solicitor acting as the Crown’s nominee by virtue of any Warrant issued by Her Majesty under Her Royal Sign Manual for the purposes of the collection, holding and application of any monies, securities, and property, real or personal, accruing to Her Majesty as part of the estate of any deceased person, or under any forfeiture, or otherwise by virtue of Her Royal Prerogative. Crown’s Nominee Account 3 1 The Crown’s Nominee Account shall be maintained by the Treasury Solicitor with the Paymaster General at the Bank of England. 2 All sums payable by the Treasury Solicitor shall be paid out of the Crown’s Nominee Account by authorised orders on the Paymaster General. 3 In this rule “authorised orders” means orders authorised by persons nominated from time to time for that purpose by the Treasury Solicitor. Audit and presentation to Parliament 4 1 The Treasury Solicitor shall prepare for presentation to Parliament in a form approved by the Treasury— a an account showing the receipts and expenditure on the Crown’s Nominee Account— i on or before 31st July 1999, for the fifteen months ending on 31st March 1999; and ii on or before 31st July in every subsequent year, for the year ending on 31st March preceding. b a balance sheet showing the assets and liabilities of the Treasury Solicitor at 31st March of the relevant year. 2 The account and balance sheet shall show the amounts transferred, in the fifteen months ending on 31st March 1999 and in every subsequent year ending on 31st March preceding, to and from the account of the Crown’s share. 3 The account and balance sheet shall be audited by such person as the Treasury Solicitor shall from time to time with the approval of the Treasury appoint for that purpose. Unclaimed grants 5 The period fixed for the purposes of section 4(3) of the Treasury Solicitor Act 1876 (period after which unclaimed grants may be paid to the Crown’s Nominee Account) shall be three years from the date of grant. Graham Allen Jim Dowd Two of the Lords Commissioners of Her Majesty’s Treasury. 3rd December 1997
AGRICULTURE Title and commencement 1 This Order may be cited as the Environmentally Sensitive Areas (Preseli) Designation (Amendment No. 2) Order 1997 and shall come into force on 5th January 1998. Amendment of the Environmentally Sensitive Areas (Preseli) Designation Order 1994 2 1 The Environmentally Sensitive Areas (Preseli) Designation Order 1994 shall be further amended in accordance with the following paragraph of this article. 2 In paragraph (3) of article 6 (rates of payment under agreement)— i for sub-paragraph (b) there shall be substituted the following sub-paragraph— b £60 per annum for each hectare of enclosed semi-natural rough grazings which do not include heather; ; ii after sub-paragraph (b) there shall be inserted the following sub-paragraph— bb £35 per annum for each hectare of enclosed partially improved grassland or enclosed unimproved grassland; . Saving 3 Paragraph (2) of article 2 of this Order shall not apply in respect of any annual payment to a farmer which relates wholly or in part to any period before 5 January 1998. Signed by authority of the Secretary of State for Wales Win Griffiths Parliamentary Under Secretary of State, Welsh Office 9th November 1997 We consent, Bob Ainsworth Jim Dowd Two of the Lords Commissioners of Her Majesty’s Treasury 2nd December 1997
BUILDING SOCIETIES Citation and commencement 1 These Rules may be cited as the Building Societies (Prescribed Form of Receipt) Rules 1997 and shall come into force on 1st December 1997. Prescribed form of receipt 2 Each of the forms set out, with notes for completion, in Part I (execution under hand) and Part II (execution under seal) of the Schedule hereto shall be a prescribed form for the purposes of paragraph 1(1)(a) of Schedule 2A to the Building Societies Act 1986 (which contains supplementary provisions as to the discharge of mortgages). Geoffrey Fitchew Chief Registrar of Friendly Societies 26th November 1997