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WATER SUPPLY, SCOTLAND Citation and commencement 1 This Order may be cited as the Water (Prevention of Pollution) (Code of Practice) (Scotland) Order 1997 and shall come into force on 25th July 1997. Code of Practice 2 The Code of Good Practice for the Prevention of Environmental Pollution from Agricultural Activity of which a copy is to be deposited in each House of Parliament on 25th June 1997 and which is to be issued by the Secretary of State on 25th July 1997, in so far as it is issued for the purpose of– a giving practical guidance to persons engaged in agriculture with respect to activities that may affect controlled waters ; and b promoting what appears to him to be desirable practices by such persons for avoiding or minimising the pollution of any such waters, (being all sections of the Code other than– i Chapter 10; ii Chapter 13, paragraphs 2 and 3 and 7 to 9 inclusive; iii Chapter 14; iv Chapter 16, paragraphs 1 to 3 inclusive and paragraph 5; and v Chapter 17) is hereby approved. Revocation 3 The Water (Prevention of Pollution) (Code of Practice) (Scotland) Order 1992 is revoked. Sewel Parliamentary Under Secretary of State, Scottish Office St Andrew’s House, Edinburgh 23rd June 1997
CRIMINAL LAW, ENGLAND AND WALES 1 This Order may be cited as the Transfer of Prisoners (Isle of Man)—Order 1997 and shall come into force on 21st July 1997. 2 It is hereby directed that paragraph 14 of Schedule 1 to the Crime (Sentences) Act 1997 shall apply in relation to the Isle of Man with the modification that, in sub-paragraph (1) of that paragraph, for the words “any of the Channel Islands” there shall be substituted the words “the Isle of Man”. N. H. Nicholls Clerk of the Privy Council
CARIBBEAN AND NORTH ATLANTIC TERRITORIES 1 This Order may be cited as the Bermuda (Territorial Sea) (Amendment) Order 1997 and shall come into force on 17th July 1997. 2 Paragraph (3) of article 3 of the Bermuda (Territorial Sea) Order in Council 1988 shall be amended to read as follows: 3 The baseline from which the breadth of the territorial sea is measured between a point on the coast at 32°15.'2N 64°52'.2W inshore of Hogfish Cut and a point on the coast at 32°22'.7N 64°39'.8W inshore of Town Cut, subject to paragraph (4) of this article, shall be a line following, in a clockwise direction, the seaward limit of the highest areas, shown as awash on the edition of Admiralty Chart 334 dated 26th June 1997, of the main reef surrounding the area of deeper water to the west and north of the main group of islands of Bermuda. . N. H. Nicholls Clerk of the Privy Council
ROAD TRAFFIC Citation and interpretation 1 1 This Order may be cited as the Road Traffic Act 1991 (Commencement No.13) (Scotland) Order 1997. 2 In this Order– “ the Act ” means the Road Traffic Act 1991. Commencement of certain provisions of the Act 2 The following provisions of the Act shall come into force on the 16th June 1997, insofar as they relate to Scotland and have not already been commenced:– a Section 43; and b Schedule 3. Malcolm Chisholm Parliamentary Under Secretary of State, Scottish Office St Andrew’s House, Edinburgh 13th June 1997
HONG KONG ADMINISTRATION OF ESTATES 1 This Order may be cited as the Hong Kong (Colonial Probates Act) Order 1997 and shall come into force on 1st July 1997. 2 There shall be inserted after section 1 of the Colonial Probates Act 1892 (application of Act by Order in Council) the following provision: 1A This Act shall apply in relation to the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region of the People’s Republic of China as it applied, immediately before 1st July 1997, to Hong Kong; and the Colonial Probates Act Application Order 1965 shall, in relation to that Region, continue in force accordingly. 3 This Order extends to Northern Ireland. N. H. Nicholls Clerk of the Privy Council
LIBRARIES 1 This Order may be cited as the Public Lending Right Scheme 1982 (Commencement of Variations) Order 1997. 2 The variations in the Public Lending Right Scheme 1982 which were made on 21st June 1997 by the Secretary of State and are set out in the Appendix to this Order shall come into force on 15th July 1997. Chris Smith Secretary of State for National Heritage 21st June 1997
HIGHWAYS, ENGLAND AND WALES 1 1 This Order may be cited as the A21 Trunk Road (Morleys Interchange Slip Roads) (Trunking) Order 1997 and shall come into force on 17th July 1997. 2 In this Order all measurements of distance are measured along the route of the relevant highway. 2 The lengths of highways described in the Schedule to this Order (the highways being in this Order referred to as “the slip roads”), shall become trunk roads from the date when this Order comes into force. 3 The centre line of each of the slip roads is indicated by a heavy black line on the plan numbered SNPR97/1 marked “The A21 Trunk Road (Morleys Interchange Slip Roads) (Trunking) Order 1997”, signed by authority of the Secretary of State for Transport and deposited at the Department of Transport, Great Minster House, Marsham Street, London SW1P 4DR. Signed by authority of the Secretary of State for Transport J. Bond Divisional Director Highways Agency 19th June 1997
ROAD TRAFFIC Citation and commencement 1 These Regulations may be cited as the Road Vehicles (Construction and Use) (Amendment) (No. 5) Regulations 1997 and shall come into force on 1st August 1997. Preliminary 2 1 The Road Vehicles (Construction and Use) Regulations 1986 shall be further amended in accordance with the following provisions of these Regulations. 2 The Secretary of State is satisfied that— a it is requisite that the provisions of regulation 3(2) of these Regulations shall apply as from 1st October 1997 to vehicles registered under the Vehicle Excise and Registration Act 1994 before the expiration of one year from the making of these Regulations; and b notwithstanding that the said provisions will then apply to those vehicles, no undue hardship or inconvenience will be caused thereby. Amendment of regulation 61 (emission of smoke, vapour, gases, oily substances, etc ) 3 1 Regulation 61 shall be amended as follows. 2 For Table II there shall be substituted the Table set out in the Schedule to these Regulations. Amendment to Schedule 7B (emissions from certain motor vehicles) 4 1 Schedule 7B shall be amended as follows. 2 For sub-paragraph (b) of paragraph 7 there shall be substituted the following sub-paragraph— b “the emissions publication” is the publication entitled “In-Service Exhaust Emissions Standards for Road Vehicles (Third Edition)” ( ISBN 0–9526457–2–6) published by the Department of Transport. Signed by authority of the Secretary of State for Transport Helene Hayman Parliamentary Under Secretary of State, Department of the Environment, Transport and the Regions 20th June 1997
MERCHANT SHIPPING 1 This Order may be cited as the Merchant Shipping and Maritime Security Act 1997 (Commencement No. 2) Order 1997. 2 The provisions of the Act specified in the first column of the Schedule to this Order (which relate to the matters specified in the second column of that Schedule) shall come into force on 17th July 1997. 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 19th June 1997
AGRICULTURE Title, commencement and interpretation 1 1 These Regulations may be cited as the Fertilisers (Amendment) Regulations 1997 and shall come into force on 14th July 1997. 2 In these Regulations “the principal Regulations ” means the Fertilisers Regulations 1991 . Amendment of the principal Regulations 2 The principal Regulations are hereby further amended in accordance with regulation 3 below. 3 In the table in Schedule 1— a in Group 1(a) of section A (Straight Fertilisers), after the provisions relating to the material Ammonium sulphonitrate with dicyandiamide (nitrification inhibitor), there shall be inserted in columns (2) to (5) the contents of Schedule 1 to these Regulations; and b in section E (Secondary Nutrient Fertilisers), after the provisions relating to the material Magnesium sulphate solution, there shall be inserted in columns (2) to (5) the contents of Schedule 2 to these Regulations. Jeff Rooker Minister of State, Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food 18th June 1997 Sewel Parliamentary Under Secretary of State, Scottish Office 17th June 1997 Signed by authority of the Secretary of State for Wales Win Griffiths Parliamentary Under Secretary of State, Welsh Office 18th June 1997
ARMS AND AMMUNITION 1 This Order may be cited as the Firearms (Amendment) Act 1997 (Firearms of Historic Interest) Order 1997 and shall come into force on 1st July 1997. 2 Firearms of the following description are specified for the purposes of section 7(1) of the Firearms (Amendment) Act 1997 (exemption of specified firearms of historic interest if part of a collection), that is to say any firearm falling within the description of a prohibited firearm in section 5(1)(aba) of the Firearms Act 1968 which is not chambered for any of the following types of ammunition, namely: .22” rim-fire 9mm Luger/Parabellum/9×19mm .25” ACP/6.35mm .38 Smith & Wesson .25” —20 .38” Special .32 ACP/7.65mm .38” —200 .32” —20 .44” Special .32” Smith & Wesson Long .44” —40 Winchester 7.62mm Soviet Tokarev .45 ACP .38” 40 Winchester .45” Colt Revolver .380 ACP/9mm short Jack Straw One of Her Majesty’s Principal Secretaries of State Home Office 18th June 1997
ARMS AND AMMUNITION Citation and commencement 1 This Order may be cited as the Firearms (Amendment) Act 1997 (Commencement) (No. 2) (Amendment) Order 1997. 2 For article 4 of the Firearms (Amendment) Act 1997 (Commencement) (No. 2) Order 1997 there shall be substituted: 4 Sections 1(2) (prohibition of certain small firearms) and 9 (prohibition of expanding ammunition) of the 1997 Act shall not have effect until 1st October 1997 in relation to the possession, sale or transfer of a firearm or ammunition by a person who, immediately before 1st July 1997, has the firearm or ammunition in his possession by virtue of: a a firearm certificate or a visitor’s firearm permit, or b a permit issued under section 7 of the 1968 Act. 4A Section 1(2) of the 1997 Act shall not have effect until 1st October 1997 in relation to the possession, purchase, acquisition, sale or transfer of a firearm by a registered firearms dealer. . Jack Straw One of Her Majesty’s Principal Secretaries of State Home Office 18th June 1997
ARMS AND AMMUNITION 1 These Regulations may be cited as the Firearms (Amendment) Act 1997 (Transitional Provisions and Savings) Regulations 1997, and shall come into force on 1st July 1997. 2 1 Section 7(3) of the Firearms (Amendment) Act 1997 shall— a until the date specified in paragraph (2) below, and b insofar as it relates to the designation of a place for the purposes of that subsection, have effect for the purposes only of designating a place for the keeping of firearms to which that subsection relates. 2 The date referred to in paragraph (1) above is— a 1st July 1998, or b the date on which the Secretary of State notifies the person or persons responsible for the management of the place in question that he is satisfied that that place is suitable for the use of firearms to which that subsection relates, whichever date is the sooner. 3 Paragraphs (1) and (2) above shall not, at any time, prevent— a the designation of a place for the purposes only of the keeping of firearms being expressed as a designation of that place for the purposes of that subsection, or b the attachment, to a firearm certificate, of a condition requiring a firearm to which the certificate relates to be kept and used only at a place designated for the purposes of that subsection by the Secretary of State, but, for the purposes of the exemption contained in that subsection, the effect of any such designation or condition shall, until the date specified in paragraph (2) above, be limited in accordance with paragraph (1) above. Jack Straw One of Her Majesty’s Principal Secretaries of State Home Office 18th June 1997
PUBLIC HEALTH, ENGLAND AND WALES Citation, commencement and interpretation 1 1 This Order may be cited as the Food Protection (Emergency Prohibitions) (Paralytic Shellfish Poisoning) Order 1997 and shall come into force at 20.00 hours on 20th June 1997. 2 In this Order “mussels” means Mytilus Edulis , “scallops” means scallops of the class of Pecten Maximus and Queen Scallops of the class of Chlamys Opercularis , “razor clams” means Ensis s.p.p. and “relevant time” means one minute past midnight on June 1997. Designated circumstances 2 In the opinion of the Secretary of State, mussels, scallops and razor clams in the area designated in article 3 below may be affected by the toxin which causes paralytic shellfish poisoning in human beings and are likely to create a hazard to human health if they are consumed. Designated area 3 The area described in the Schedule to this Order is hereby designated for the purposes of Part I of the Food and Environment Protection Act 1985. Activity prohibited in the designated area 4 No person shall fish for or take any mussels, scallops or razor clams in the designated area. Prohibited movement of mussels, scallops or razor clams 5 No person shall move any mussels, scallops or razor clams out of the designated area. Restrictions throughout the United Kingdom 6 No person shall in the United Kingdom or in United Kingdom waters– a use any mussels, scallops or razor clams taken out of the designated area after the relevant time in the preparation or processing for supply of food and anything from which food could be derived, b land any mussels, scallops or razor clams which were in waters in the designated area after the relevant time, c supply, or have in possession for supply, any mussels, scallops or razor clams which were in the designated area after the relevant time, d supply, or have in possession for supply, any food or anything from which food could be derived in the preparation or processing of which anything was used in contravention of paragraph (a) of this article, e feed to any creature a feeding stuff in the preparation or processing of which anything was used in contravention of paragraph (a) of this article. G M Thomson Assistant Secretary, Scottish Office Pentland House, Edinburgh 20th June 1997
REGISTRATION OF BIRTHS, DEATHS, MARRIAGES, ETC. ENGLAND AND WALES Citation, commencement and interpretation 1 These Regulations may be cited as the Registration of Births and Deaths (Amendment No. 2) Regulations 1997 and shall come into force on 1st July 1997. Amendment of the Registration of Births and Deaths Regulations 1987 2 1 The Registration of Births and Deaths Regulations 1987 shall be amended in accordance with the following provisions of this regulation. 2 In regulation 17 (re-registration of birth) in paragraph (3) for sub-paragraph (a) there shall be substituted the following sub-paragraph— a call upon the parent to make and sign a statement in form 2 in accordance with the authority of the Registrar General; . 3 In regulation 20 (re-registration where parent attends)— a paragraphs (1) and (2) shall be omitted; and b in paragraph (3)— i for the words “The registrar shall then in the presence of the parent —” there shall be substituted the words “Where the parent attends personally at the office of the relevant registrar for re-registration, the registrar shall —”; ii for sub-paragraph (a) there shall be substituted the following sub-paragraph— a ascertain from the parent the particulars to be registered concerning the birth and enter them in spaces 1 to 13 of form 1 in the presence of the parent and in accordance with the authority of the Registrar General; ; and iii in sub-paragraph (b) the words from “enter in space 12” to “as the case may be, and” shall be omitted. 4 In regulation 21 (making of declaration where parent does not attend) in paragraph (1)— a the words “with the written consent of the Registrar General” shall be omitted; and b at the end of the paragraph there shall be inserted the words “, provided that if the parent is not in England and Wales, he has obtained the written consent of the Registrar General”. 5 In regulation 55 (correction of minor clerical errors after completion)— a in paragraph (2) after sub-paragraph (c) there shall be inserted the following sub-paragraph— cc omission of the words required to be added in space 15 of a birth entry by regulation 17(2)(c), 17(4)(c), 20(3)(c), or 22(d); ; and b in paragraph (4) after the words “regulations 20, 22, 23 and 26A ” there shall be inserted the words “and is not one to which sub-paragraph (2)(cc) applies,”. 6 In Schedule 2— a for form 2 there shall be substituted form 2 in Schedule 1 to these Regulations; and b forms 5 and 6 shall be omitted . Amendment of the Registration of Births and Deaths (Welsh Language) Regulations 1987 3 In the Registration of Births and Deaths (Welsh Language) Regulations 1987 in Schedule 2— a for form 2 there shall be substituted form 2 in Schedule 2 to these Regulations; and b forms 5 and 6 shall be omitted . Given under my hand on Dr. D. Holt Registrar General 6 June 1997 I approve, Signed by authority of the Chancellor of the Exchequer Helen Liddell Economic Secretary to the Treasury 9 June 1997
VALUE ADDED TAX 1 This Order may be cited as the Value Added Tax (Special Provisions) (Amendment) Order 1997 and shall come into force on 3rd July 1997. 2 The Value Added Tax (Special Provisions) Order 1995 shall be amended as follows. 3 For article 12(3)(a) there shall be substituted— a that the taxable person took possession of the goods pursuant to— i a supply in respect of which no VAT was chargeable under the Act or under Part I of the Manx Act; ii a supply on which VAT was chargeable on the profit margin in accordance with paragraph (1) above or a corresponding provision made under the Manx Act or a corresponding provision of the law of another member State; iii a transaction except one relating to the transfer of the assets of a business or part of a business as a going concern which was treated by virtue of any Order made or having effect as if made under section 5(3) of the Act or under the corresponding provisions of the Manx Act as being neither a supply of goods nor a supply of services; iv a transaction relating to the transfer of the assets of a business or part of a business as a going concern which was treated as neither a supply of goods nor a supply of services if the transferor took possession of the goods in any of the circumstances described in this sub-paragraph; or v (if the goods are a work of art) a supply to the taxable person by, or an acquisition from another member State by him from its creator or his successor in title; . Bob Ainsworth Graham Allen Two of the Lord Commissioners of Her Majesty’s Treasury 2nd July 1997
TRANSPORT Citation, commencement and interpretation 1 1 This Order may be cited as the Railways (Heathrow Express Temporary Network) (Exemptions) Order 1997. 2 This Order shall come into force on 23rd July 1997. 3 In this Order— “the 1993 Act ” means the Railways Act 1993; “the relevant day” has the same meaning as in the Railways (Heathrow Express (Exemptions) Order 1994 ; and “the temporary network” means a network approximately 191 metres in length running southwards from a junction with the railway line between Paddington Station, London and Heathrow Airport situated approximately 300 metres to the south of Stockley Road Bridge, West Drayton. Franchise exemption 2 1 Exemption from designation under section 23(1) of the 1993 Act (designation of passenger services as eligible for franchising) is granted to any person who provides a railway passenger service on any railway line comprised in the temporary network, in respect of that service. 2 The exemption granted in paragraph (1) above shall have effect from the date on which this Order comes into force until the relevant day. Disapplication of closure provisions 3 1 Every railway passenger service provided between Paddington Station, London and any station associated with the temporary network is a service in relation to which section 37 of the 1993 Act (closure of non-franchised etc. passenger services) is not to have effect. 2 The temporary network is a network in relation to which section 39 of the 1993 Act (closure of operational passenger networks) is not to have effect. 3 Any station associated with the temporary network is a station in relation to which section 41 of the 1993 Act (closure of railway facilities used in connection with passenger services) is not to have effect. Signed by authority of the Secretary of State for Transport Glenda Jackson Parliamentary Under Secretary of State, Department of Environment, Transport and the Regions 17th June 1997
COMPETITION 1 This Order may be cited as the Unichem Limited (Allotment of Shares) Revocation Order 1997 and shall come into force on 17th July 1997. 2 The Unichem Limited (Allotment of Shares) Order 1989 is hereby revoked. N. Griffiths Parliamentary Under Secretary of State for Competition and Consumer Affairs, Department of Trade and Industry 17th June 1997
CORONERS Citation 1 This Order may be cited as the North Yorkshire (Coroners' Districts) Order 1997. Commencement and application 2 1 This Order shall come into force on 1st August 1997. 2 This Order shall not have effect in relation to any inquest before the day on which it comes into force or to any post-mortem examination which, before that day, a coroner has directed or requested a medical practitioner to make. Alteration of coroners' districts 3 1 The existing Claro coroner’s district, North Eastern coroner’s district, Scarborough and Ryedale coroner’s district and Western coroner’s district of the county of North Yorkshire shall be abolished. 2 From the area comprising the coroners' districts mentioned in paragraph (1) above there shall be formed the two coroners' districts named in column 1 of the Schedule to this Order which shall consist of the areas specified in column 2 of the Schedule. Jack Straw One of Her Majesty’s Principal Secretaries of State Home Office 16th June 1997
COURT OF SESSION, SCOTLAND Citation and commencement 1 1 This Act of Sederunt may be cited as the Act of Sederunt (Rules of the Court of Session Amendment No.6) (Actions of harassment) 1997 and shall come into force on 16th June 1997. 2 This Act of Sederunt shall be inserted in the Books of Sederunt. Actions of harassment 2 1 After Chapter 43 of the Rules of the Court of Session 1994 ( insert– CHAPTER 43A ACTIONS OF HARASSMENT Application and interpretation of this Chapter 43A.1 – 1 This Chapter applies to an action of harassment within the meaning of section 8(2) of the 1997 Act . 2 In this Chapter– “the 1997 Act” means the Protection from Harassment Act 1997 “non-harassment order” means an order granted under section 8(5)(b)(ii) of the 1997 Act. Procedure for variation or revocation of non-harassment order 43A.2 An application under section 8(7) of the 1997 Act after final decree in an action of harassment for the variation or revocation of a non-harassment order shall be made by minute in the process of the action to which the application relates. . Rodger of Earlsferry Lord President, I.P.D. Edinburgh, 12th June 1997
MEDICAL PROFESSION This Order may be cited as the General Medical Council (Professional Performance) Rules Order of Council 1997, and shall come into force on 1st July 1997. N. H. Nicholls Clerk of the Privy Council