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Citation and commencement
1
This Order may be cited as the Road Traffic (Permitted Parking Area and Special Parking Area) (Metropolitan Borough of Wirral) Order 2003 and shall come into force on 17th November 2003.
Interpretation
2
In this Order —
“the 1984 Act ” means the Road Traffic Regulation Act 1984 ;
“the 1991 Act ” means the Road Traffic Act 1991; and
“the parking area” means the area designated as a permitted parking area and as a special parking area by article 4 of this Order.
Application
3
This Order applies to the whole of the metropolitan borough of Wirral except —
a
the entire length of the M53, and its on and off slip roads, within the metropolitan borough; and
b
the Kingsway Tunnel Approach from its junction with the M53 at Junction 1 to the Kingsway Tunnel entrance, and its on and off slip roads and marshalling areas, within the metropolitan borough;
c
the A5139 Docks Link Road, from its junction with Poulton Bridge Road to its junction with the A554;
d
the approaches to the Queensway Tunnel as follows —
i
Tunnel Road from its junction with the A41 to the tunnel entrance;
ii
from the junction with Conway Street and Hamilton Street, but not including the roundabout that forms the junction, to the tunnel entrance; and
iii
the flyover from Borough Road to the tunnel entrance;
e
the Chester Street (Underpass) from its junction with Tunnel Road to its junction with Ivy Street; and
f
the Cross Town Link (Flyover), Birkenhead from its junction with Chester Street to its junction with Borough Road East.
Designation of permitted parking area and special parking area
4
The Secretary of State hereby designates the area to which this Order applies as —
a
a permitted parking area; and
b
a special parking area.
Modification and application of Part II of the 1991 Act
5
Sections 66, 69 to 74, 78, 79 and 82 of, and Schedule 6 to, the 1991 Act shall apply in relation to the parking area and as so applied shall have effect subject to the modifications specified in Schedule 1 to this Order.
Modification of other provisions
6
The 1984 Act shall be modified in relation to the parking area as specified in Schedule 2 to this Order.
Signed by authority of the Secretary of State
Tony McNulty
Parliamentary Under Secretary of State
Department for Transport
21st October 2003


type: legislation

jurisdiction: UK

text:
Title, application and commencement
1
These Regulations may be cited as the Registration of Establishments (Laying Hens) (England) Regulations 2003; they apply only to England and come into force on 31st December 2003.
Interpretation
2
— In these Regulations —
“the Directive” means Commission Directive 2002/4/ EC on the registration of establishments keeping laying hens, covered by Council Directive 1999/74/EC ;
“establishment” means any site at which 350 or more laying hens are kept;
“laying hens” means hens of the species Gallus gallus which have reached maturity and are kept for the production of eggs not intended for hatching;
“local authority” means —
in any part of England where there is, within the meaning of the Local Government Changes for England Regulations 1994 , a unitary authority for that local government area, that authority;
where there is not a unitary authority —
in a metropolitan district, the council of that district;
in a non-metropolitan county, the council of that county; or
in each London borough, the council of that borough;
in the City of London, the Common Council; and
“register” means the register of establishments maintained by the Secretary of State pursuant to regulation 3.
Creation of a register and provision of a distinguishing number
3
1
The Secretary of State shall create and maintain a register of establishments.
2
The Secretary of State shall, within a reasonable time after receipt of an application, note an establishment on the register, allocate to the establishment a distinguishing number composed in accordance with the Directive and communicate that number to the applicant.
Exchange of information
4
1
The Food Standards Agency and the Health Protection Agency shall have access to the register for the purpose of tracing eggs put on the market for human consumption.
2
The local authority shall have access to the register for the purpose of enforcement of these Regulations.
Prohibition on operation or bringing into service of establishments
5
1
After 1st March 2004 no person shall continue to operate an establishment in operation on that date unless an application has been made to note that establishment on the register.
2
No person shall bring an establishment into operation after 1st March 2004 unless an application has been made to note that establishment on the register and a distinguishing number communicated to the applicant by the Secretary of State.
3
Applications shall contain the information set out in the Schedule and shall be on a form supplied by the Secretary of State.
4
The operator of an establishment shall notify the Secretary of State of any change to the information on the register within 28 days.
Powers of authorised officers
6
1
An officer authorised by the Secretary of State or the local authority shall, on producing if required to do so some duly authenticated document showing his authority, have the right at all reasonable hours to enter any land or premises (other than premises used exclusively as a dwellinghouse) for the purposes of ascertaining whether there is or has been on or in respect of the premises any contravention of these Regulations.
2
Such an officer shall have powers to carry out all checks and examinations necessary for the enforcement of these Regulations, and in particular may examine and copy documentary or data processing material.
Obstruction
7
1
No person shall —
a
obstruct any person acting in the execution of these Regulations;
b
without reasonable cause, fail to give any person acting in the execution of these Regulations any assistance or information which that person may reasonably require for the purposes of his functions under these Regulations; or
c
furnish to any person acting in the execution of these Regulations any information which he knows to be false.
2
Nothing in paragraph (1)(b) shall be construed as requiring any person to answer any question or give any information if to do so might incriminate him.
Offences by body corporate
8
1
Where a body corporate is guilty of an offence under these Regulations, and that offence is proved to have been committed with the consent or connivance of, or to have been attributable to any neglect on the part of —
a
any director, manager, secretary or other similar officer of the body corporate, or
b
any person who was purporting to act in any such capacity,
he as well as the body corporate shall be guilty of an offence and be liable to be proceeded against and punished accordingly.
2
For the purposes of paragraph (1), “director” in relation to a body corporate whose affairs are managed by its members, means a member of the body corporate.
Penalties
9
1
A person contravening any provision of these Regulations shall be guilty of an offence.
2
A person guilty of an offence under these Regulations shall be liable on summary conviction to imprisonment for a term not exceeding three months or a fine not exceeding level 4 on the standard scale.
Enforcement
10
These Regulations shall be enforced by the local authority or the Secretary of State.
Ben Bradshaw
Parliamentary Under Secretary of State
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
1st December 2003


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1
This Order may be cited as the Transport for London (Reserved Services) (London Underground Limited) Exception Order 2003 and shall come into force on 15th July 2003.
2
In this Order “ the Act ” means the Greater London Authority Act 1999.
3
There shall be excepted from section 207(2) of the Act any agreement —
a
under which an outside contractor is to provide, or secure the provision of, reserved services in respect of any public service for the carriage of passengers by railway which is under the control of London Underground Limited; and
b
to which London Underground Limited was a party immediately before the date on which this Order is made.
4
In section 207(7) of the Act, in the definition of “station operating function”, paragraph (f) shall be omitted.
Tony McNulty
Parliamentary Under Secretary of State,
Department for Transport
20th June 2003


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Citation and commencement
1
This Order may be cited as the Thurrock Development Corporation (Area and Constitution) Order 2003, and shall come into force on the day after the day on which it is approved by resolution of each House of Parliament.
Designation of urban development area
2
1
The area shown on the map bounded externally by a black line and edged internally with a stippled band is hereby designated as an urban development area.
2
In paragraph (1), “the map” means the map entitled “Map referred to in the Thurrock Development Corporation (Area and Constitution) Order 2003”, of which prints, signed by a Director in the Office of the Deputy Prime Minister, are deposited and available for inspection at the offices of the First Secretary of State and the offices of Thurrock Borough Council.
Establishment of the Thurrock Development Corporation
3
1
For the purposes of regenerating the area designated by article 2(1) there is hereby established an urban development corporation named “Thurrock Development Corporation”.
2
The corporation established by paragraph (1) shall consist of eleven members in addition to the chairman and deputy chairman.
Signed by authority of one of Her Majesty’s Principal Secretaries of State
Keith Hill
Minister of State,
Office of the Deputy Prime Minister
23rd June 2003


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Citation
1
This Order may be cited as the Immigration and Asylum Act 1999 (Commencement No. 12) Order 2003.
Commencement
2
The provisions of the Immigration and Asylum Act 1999 specified in column 1 of the Schedule to this Order shall come into force on the date specified in column 2 of that Schedule, but where a particular purpose is specified in relation to any such provision in column 3 of that Schedule, the provision concerned shall come into force on that date only for that purpose.
Beverley Hughes
Minister of State
Home Office
4th January 2003


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Citation and commencement
1
This Order may be cited as the Social Security Revaluation of Earnings Factors Order 2003 and shall come into force on 6th April 2003.
Revaluation of earnings factors
2
The earnings factors for tax years specified in the Schedule to this Order, in so far as they are relevant —
a
to the calculation —
i
of the additional pension in the rate of any long-term benefit; or
ii
of any guaranteed minimum pension; or
b
to any other calculation required under Part III of the Pension Schemes Act 1993 (including that Part as modified by or under any other enactment),
are directed to be increased for those tax years by the percentage of their amount shown opposite those tax years in that Schedule.
Rounding of fractional amounts
3
Where any earnings factor relevant to the calculation specified in article 2(a)(i) of this Order, as increased in accordance with this Order, would not but for this article be expressed as a whole number of pounds, it shall be so expressed by the rounding down of any fraction of a pound less than one half and the rounding up of any other fraction of a pound.
Signed by authority of the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions.
Ian McCartney
Minister of State,
Department for Work and Pensions
5th March 2003


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Citation, commencement and interpretation
1
1
This order may be cited as the Black Country Mental Health National Health Service Trust (Change of Name) and (Establishment) Amendment Order 2003 and shall come into force on 1st April 2003.
2
In this Order —
“the Establishment Order ” means the Black Country Mental Health National Health Service Trust (Establishment) Order 1994 ; and
“ the trust ” means the National Health Service Trust established by the Establishment Order.
Change of name of the Trust
2
The trust shall be called the Sandwell Mental Health National Health Service and Social Care Trust instead of the Black Country Mental Health National Health Service Trust, and accordingly —
a
in article 1(2) of the Establishment Order, in the definition of “the trust”; and
b
in article 2 of the Establishment Order,
the words “Black Country Mental Health National Health Service Trust” shall be replaced by “Sandwell Mental Health National Health Service and Social Care Trust”.
3
The change of name effected by article 2 of this Order shall not —
a
affect any right or obligation of any person; or
b
be taken as invalidating any instrument (whether made before, on, or after the day on which this Order comes into force) which refers to the trust by its previous name,
and all instruments and other documents which refer to the trust under its previous name shall be construed as referring to it under its new name.
Designation as a Care Trust
4
In Article 2 of the Establishment Order there shall be added the following new paragraph —
2
The trust is designated as a Care Trust.
.
Signed by authority of the Secretary of State for Health
Jacqui Smith
Minister of State,
Department of Health
20th March 2003


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1
1
This Order may be cited as the Freedom of Information Act 2000 (Commencement No. 3) Order 2003 .
2
In this Order —
“ the Act ” means the Freedom of Information Act 2000; and
“the publication scheme provisions” mean section 19(1) to 19(4) of the Act, insofar as it is not already in force .
Commencement on 31st October 2003
2
The publication scheme provisions shall come into force on 31st October 2003 for the following public authorities —
a
the public authorities listed in Part III of Schedule 1 to the Act;
b
the Distinction and Meritorious Service Awards Committee ;
c
Invest Northern Ireland ; and
d
The Northern Ireland Council for Postgraduate Medical and Dental Education .
Commencement on 29th February 2004
3
The publication scheme provisions shall come into force on 29th February 2004 for the following public authorities —
a
the public authorities listed in Part IV of Schedule 1 to the Act, except for those specified in paragraph 52(b) ;
b
the public authorities listed in Schedule 1 to this Order; and
c
any publicly-owned company as defined in section 6 of the Act.
Commencement on 30th June 2004
4
1
The publication scheme provisions shall come into force on 30th June 2004 for all public authorities in respect of which those provisions have not been commenced elsewhere, with the exception of —
a
that public authority listed in paragraph 17 of Schedule 1 to the Act ; and
b
the consultative Civic Forum referred to in section 56(4) of the Northern Ireland Act 1998 .
Lord Filkin
Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State
Department for Constitutional Affairs
8th October 2003


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Citation and commencement
1
These Regulations may be cited as the Social Security (Jobcentre Plus Interviews for Partners) Regulations 2003 and shall come into force on 12th April 2004.
Interpretation and application
2
1
In these Regulations —
“the 1998 Act ” means the Social Security Act 1998 ;
“benefit week” means any period of seven days corresponding to the week in respect of which the relevant specified benefit is due to be paid;
“claimant” means a claimant of a specified benefit who has a partner to whom these Regulations apply;
“interview” means a work-focused interview with a partner which is conducted for any or all of the following purposes —
assessing the partner’s prospects for existing or future employment (whether paid or voluntary);
assisting or encouraging the partner to enhance his prospects of such employment;
identifying activities which the partner may undertake to strengthen his existing or future prospects of employment;
identifying current or future employment or training opportunities suitable to the partner’s needs; and
identifying educational opportunities connected with the existing or future employment prospects or needs of the partner;
“officer” means a person who is an officer of, or who is providing services to or exercising functions of, the Secretary of State;
“partner” means a person who is a member of the same couple as the claimant, or, in a case where the claimant has more than one partner, a person who is a partner of the claimant by reason of a polygamous marriage, but only where —
the claimant has been awarded a specified benefit at a higher rate referable to that partner; and
both the partner and the claimant have attained the age of 18 but have not attained the age of 60;
“polygamous marriage” means any marriage during the subsistence of which a party to it is married to more than one person and the ceremony of marriage took place under the law of a country which permits polygamy;
“specified benefit” means a benefit to which section 2AA applies.
2
Regulations 3 to 13 apply to a partner in circumstances where on or after 12th April 2004 the claimant’s award of a specified benefit is being administered from an office of the Department for Work and Pensions which is designated by the Secretary of State as a Jobcentre Plus Office and the claimant has been continuously entitled to the benefit for 26 weeks or longer.
Requirement for partner to take part in an interview as a condition of a specified benefit continuing to be paid at full amount
3
1
Subject to regulations 5 to 8, a partner to whom these Regulations apply is required to take part in an interview as a condition of the claimant continuing to be paid the full amount of a specified benefit which is payable apart from these Regulations.
2
Where a requirement to take part in an interview arises under paragraph (1), a requirement to take part in an interview shall also apply to any other specified benefit in payment to the claimant at a higher rate referable to his partner on the date set for the interview and notified to the partner in accordance with regulation 9(1).
Time when interview is to take place
4
An officer shall arrange for an interview to take place as soon as reasonably practicable after —
a
the requirement under regulation 3(1) arises; or
b
in a case where regulation 6(1) applies, the time when that requirement is to apply by virtue of regulation 6(2).
Waiver of requirement to take part in an interview
5
1
A requirement imposed by these Regulations to take part in an interview shall not apply where an officer determines that an interview would not —
a
be of assistance to the partner concerned; or
b
be appropriate in the circumstances.
2
A partner in relation to whom a requirement to take part in an interview has been waived under paragraph (1) shall be treated for the purposes of regulation 3 as having complied with that requirement.
Deferment of requirement to take part in an interview
6
1
An officer may determine, in the case of any particular partner, that the requirement to take part in an interview shall be deferred at the time that the requirement to take part in it arises or applies because an interview would not at that time —
a
be of assistance to the partner concerned; or
b
be appropriate in the circumstances.
2
Where the officer determines in accordance with paragraph (1) that the requirement to take part in an interview shall be deferred, he shall also, when that determination is made, determine the time when the requirement to take part in an interview is to apply in the partner’s case.
3
Where a requirement to take part in an interview has been deferred in accordance with paragraph (1), then until —
a
a determination is made under regulation 5(1);
b
the partner takes part in an interview; or
c
a relevant decision has been made in accordance with regulation 10(3),
the partner shall be treated for the purposes of regulation 3 as having complied with that requirement.
Exemption
7
A partner who, on the day on which the requirement to take part in an interview arises or applies under regulation 3(1) or 6(2), is in receipt of a specified benefit as a claimant in his own right shall be exempt from the requirement to take part in an interview under these Regulations.
Claims for two or more specified benefits
8
A partner who would otherwise be required under these Regulations to take part in interviews relating to more than one specified benefit —
a
is only required to take part in one interview during any period where the claimant is in receipt of two or more specified benefits concurrently; and
b
that interview counts for the purposes of each of those benefits.
The interview
9
1
An officer shall inform a partner who is required to take part in an interview of the date, place and time of the interview.
2
The officer may determine that an interview is to take place in the partner’s home where it would, in his opinion, be unreasonable to expect the partner to attend elsewhere because the partner’s personal circumstances are such that attending elsewhere would cause him undue inconvenience or endanger his health.
3
An officer shall conduct the interview.
Taking part in an interview
10
1
The officer shall determine whether a partner has taken part in an interview.
2
A partner shall be regarded as having taken part in an interview if and only if —
a
he attends for the interview at the place and time notified to him by the officer; and
b
he provides answers (where asked) to questions and appropriate information about —
i
the level to which he has pursued any educational qualifications;
ii
his employment history;
iii
any vocational training he has undertaken;
iv
any skills he has acquired which fit him for employment;
v
any paid or unpaid employment he is engaged in;
vi
any medical condition which, in his opinion, puts him at a disadvantage in obtaining employment; and
vii
any caring or childcare responsibilities he has.
3
Where an officer determines that a partner has failed to take part in an interview and good cause has not been shown either by the partner or by the claimant for that failure within five working days of the day on which the interview was to take place, a relevant decision shall be made for the purposes of section 2B of the Social Security Administration Act 1992 and the partner and the claimant shall be notified accordingly.
Failure to take part in an interview
11
1
Where a relevant decision has been made in accordance with regulation 10(3), subject to paragraph (11), the specified benefit payable to the claimant in respect of which the requirement for the partner to take part in an interview under regulation 3 arose shall be reduced, either as from the first day of the next benefit week following the day on which the relevant decision was made, or, if that date arises five days or less after the day on which the relevant decision was made, as from the first day of the second benefit week following the date of the relevant decision.
2
The deduction made to benefit in accordance with paragraph (1) shall be by a sum equal (but subject to paragraphs (3) and (4)) to 20 per cent. of the amount applicable on the date the deduction commences in respect of a single claimant for income support aged not less than 25.
3
Benefit reduced in accordance with paragraph (1) shall not be reduced below ten pence per week.
4
Where two or more specified benefits are in payment to a claimant, in relation to each of which a requirement for the partner to take part in an interview had arisen under regulation 3, a deduction made in accordance with this regulation shall be applied, except in a case to which paragraph (5) applies, to those benefits in the following order of priority —
a
an income-based jobseeker’s allowance;
b
income support;
c
incapacity benefit;
d
severe disablement allowance;
e
carer’s allowance.
5
Where the amount of the reduction is greater than some (but not all) of those benefits, the reduction shall be made against the first benefit in the list in paragraph (4) which is the same as, or greater than, the amount of the reduction.
6
For the purpose of determining whether a benefit is the same as, or greater than, the amount of the reduction for the purposes of paragraph (5), ten pence shall be added to the amount of the reduction.
7
In a case where the whole of the reduction cannot be applied against any one benefit because no one benefit is the same as, or greater than, the amount of the reduction, the reduction shall be applied against the first benefit in the list of priorities at paragraph (4) and so on against each benefit in turn until the whole of the reduction is exhausted or, if this is not possible, the whole of those benefits are exhausted, subject in each case to ten pence remaining in payment.
8
Where the rate of any specified benefit payable to a claimant changes, the rules set out above for a reduction in the benefit payable shall be applied to the new rates and any adjustments to the benefits against which the reductions are made shall take effect from the beginning of the first benefit week to commence for that claimant following the change.
9
Where the partner of a claimant whose benefit has been reduced in accordance with this regulation subsequently takes part in an interview, the reduction shall cease to have effect on the first day of the benefit week in which the requirement to take part in an interview was met.
10
For the purposes of determining the amount of any benefit payable, a claimant shall be treated as receiving the amount of any specified benefit which would have been payable but for a reduction made in accordance with this regulation.
11
Benefit shall not be reduced in accordance with this regulation where the partner or the claimant brings new facts to the notice of the Secretary of State within one month of the date on which the decision that the partner failed without good cause to take part in an interview was notified and —
a
those facts could not reasonably have been brought to the Secretary of State’s notice within five working days of the day on which the interview was to take place; and
b
those facts show that he had good cause for his failure to take part in the interview.
Circumstances where regulation 11 does not apply
12
The reduction of benefit to be made under regulation 11 shall not apply as from the date when a partner who failed to take part in an interview ceases to be a partner for the purposes of these Regulations or is no longer a partner to whom these Regulations apply under the provisions within regulation 2(2).
Good cause
13
Matters to be taken into account in determining whether the partner or the claimant has shown good cause for the partner’s failure to take part in an interview include —
a
that the partner misunderstood the requirement to take part in an interview due to any learning, language or literacy difficulties of the partner or any misleading information given to the partner by the officer;
b
that the partner was attending a medical or dental appointment, or accompanying a person for whom the partner had caring responsibilities to such an appointment, and that it would have been unreasonable, in the circumstances, to rearrange the appointment;
c
that the partner had difficulties with his normal mode of transport and that no reasonable alternative was available;
d
that the established customs and practices of the religion to which the partner belongs prevented him attending on that day or at that time;
e
that the partner was attending an interview with an employer with a view to obtaining employment;
f
that the partner was actually pursuing employment opportunities as a self-employed earner;
g
that the partner, claimant or a dependant or a person for whom the partner provides care suffered an accident, sudden illness or relapse of a chronic condition;
h
that he was attending the funeral of a close friend or relative on the day fixed for the interview;
i
that a disability from which the partner suffers made it impracticable for him to attend at the time fixed for the interview.
Appeals
14
1
This regulation applies to any relevant decision made under regulation 10(3) or any decision under section 10 of the 1998 Act superseding such a decision.
2
This regulation applies whether the decision is as originally made or as revised under section 9 of the 1998 Act.
3
In the case of a decision to which this regulation applies, the partner in respect of whom the decision was made and the claimant shall each have a right of appeal under section 12 of the 1998 Act to an appeal tribunal.
Amendments to the Social Security and Child Support (Decisions and Appeals) Regulations 1999
15
1
The Social Security and Child Support (Decisions and Appeals) Regulations 1999 shall be amended in accordance with this regulation.
2
In paragraph (3) of regulation 1 (citation, commencement and interpretation) —
a
in paragraph (b) of the definition of “party to the proceedings” before the words “or section 12(2)” there shall be inserted the words “ , section 2B(6) of the Administration Act ”;
b
at the end of the definition of “work-focused interview” there shall be added the words “or under the Social Security (Jobcentre Plus Interviews for Partners) Regulations 2003”.
3
In paragraph (6A) of regulation 3 after the words “section 2B(2)” there shall be inserted the words “or (2A)”.
4
In paragraph (2) of regulation 6 at the end of sub-paragraph (h)(ii) there shall be added the words “or, in the case of a partner who was required to take part in a work-focused interview under the Social Security (Jobcentre Plus Interviews for Partners) Regulations 2003, ceased to be a partner for the purposes of those Regulations or is no longer a partner to whom those Regulations apply”.
5
For paragraph (25) of regulation 7 there shall be substituted the following paragraph —
25
In a case where a decision (“the first decision”) has been made that a person failed without good cause to take part in a work-focused interview, the decision under section 10 shall take effect as from —
a
the first day of the benefit week to commence for that person following the date of the first decision; or
b
in a case where a partner has failed without good cause to take part in a work-focused interview under the Social Security (Jobcentre Plus Interviews for Partners) Regulations 2003 —
i
the first day of the benefit week to commence for the claimant (as defined in regulation 2(1) of those Regulations) following the date of the first decision; or
ii
if that date arises five days or less after the day on which the first decision was made, as from the first day of the second benefit week to commence for the claimant following the date of the first decision.
.
Signed by authority of the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions
Des Browne
Minister of State,
Department for Work and Pensions
17th July 2003


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Citation, commencement and interpretation
1
1
This Order may be cited as the Price Marking (Food and Drink Services) Order 2003 and shall come into force on 2nd March 2004.
2
In this Order —
“eating area” means any part of any premises specifically set aside and equipped for the consumption of food notwithstanding that some other activity may be carried on in the area in question but does not include a supply area;
“food” means food and drink for human consumption but does not include food which is supplied —
at the express request of a purchaser in a case where the seller has not indicated that food of the same description is or may be for sale by him; or
at a price agreed in advance pursuant to an order made before an intending purchaser enters the eating area, supply area or take-away area in question to obtain or consume the food;
“premises” includes any vehicle or vessel;
“soft drink” means any non-alcoholic drink of a kind which is served cold;
“supply area” means any part of any premises specifically set aside and equipped for the supply of food in a case where an intending purchaser pays for food for consumption on the premises where it is sold before it is consumed notwithstanding that some other activity may be carried on in the area in question;
“take-away area” means any part of any premises specifically set aside and equipped for the supply of food prepared or heated at the request of a consumer or supplied as heated meals in each case for consumption off the premises where it is sold notwithstanding in any case that some other activity may be carried on in the area in question; and
“wine” means any drink obtained from the alcoholic fermentation of fresh grapes or the must of fresh grapes other than drink fortified with spirits or flavoured with aromatic extracts.
Revocation
2
The Price Marking (Food and Drink on Premises) Order 1979 is hereby revoked.
When the Order applies
3
1
This Order applies where a person indicates that food is or may be for sale by him by retail for consumption on any premises (other than premises to which paragraph (2) applies) or in a take-away area.
2
This Order does not apply to premises on which food is ordinarily supplied —
a
only to members of a bona fide club or their guests; or
b
only or mainly to members of a group determined by reference to —
i
their employment, or the employment of a partner, parent or partner of a parent of theirs, in the service of a particular person or of one of a number of particular persons;
ii
their membership of, or regular attendance at, an educational establishment; or
c
only to persons for whom sleeping accommodation on those premises is provided.
Obligations to indicate prices for food and other charges
4
1
A person who indicates that food is or may be for sale by him shall, subject to the other provisions of this Order, give an indication of —
a
the price for the sale of that food (except where it is sold by reference to quantity or weight);
b
the price for the sale of each quantity or weight where the food is sold by reference to quantity or weight, subject to paragraph (2) below;
c
any charge which is payable in addition to the price of any food (expressed either as an amount or as a percentage of the price); and
d
any minimum price or charge which is payable in respect of any food sold or service provided relating to the supply of food.
2
A single indication of price is required by paragraph (1)(b) above where a food is sold in more than one quantity or weight if the quantity or weight to which that price applies is indicated and the prices of other quantities or weights are proportionate to the indicated price.
3
Where foods of different descriptions are or may be for sale together (other than foods supplied as a fixed price meal) and the total price for the foods is the sum of the prices of the individual foods, only an indication of the price of the individual foods is required.
4
An indication of the price of food or of a charge payable in addition to the price of any food which is subject to value added tax shall be inclusive of the tax.
5
1
Indications of the price of food are required to be given in accordance with the table set out below:
Descriptions of food which are or may be for sale Indications of price required
Not more than thirty descriptions of food (other than wine) For all More than thirty descriptions of food (other than wine) For thirty which must, if soft drinks are or may be for sale, include five soft drinks or the actual number if less than five More than thirty descriptions of food (other than wine) divided in any way into categories For a minimum of thirty which must include five per category or the actual number in a category if less than five. If soft drinks are or may be for sale indications must be given for five or the actual number if less than five Wine for consumption with other foods in an eating or supply area For five or the actual number if less than five Foods of different descriptions for sale together as a fixed price meal For each fixed price meal. The preceding rules in this table shall not apply to the foods contained in the meal unless they are or may be available separately
6
1
Where an indication is given that food of a particular description is or may be for sale generally (as opposed to only in an indicated period of a day) an indication of the price of that food shall be withdrawn as soon as is reasonably practicable if the food ceases to be available.
2
Where an indication is given that food of a particular description is or may be for sale only in an indicated period of a day an indication of the price of that food shall be withdrawn before the next such period if the food ceases to be available.
Manner of indication of prices and charges
7
1
an indication of price shall be unambiguous, easily identifiable and clearly legible by an intending purchaser and shall comply with such of the following provisions of this article as may be applicable.
2
In the case of an eating area, the indication shall be given at or near the entrance to the eating area so that an intending purchaser can see it before entering that area or, in the case of an eating area in a railway carriage where an intending purchaser requests the supply of food at the place at which it is to be consumed, at that place.
3
In the case of a supply area, the indication shall be given at the place where an intending purchaser chooses the food and, if that indication cannot be seen by an intending purchaser before entering the supply area, a further indication shall be given at or near the entrance to the supply area.
4
In the case of a take-away area the indication shall be given at the place where an intending purchaser chooses the food.
5
Any additional charge or minimum charge payable shall be indicated at least as prominently as the price of any food to which it relates.
6
An indication of price or charge shall be in sterling.
7
If a person indicates his willingness to accept foreign currency in payment for the sale of food, he shall, in addition to the price indication in sterling, either —
a
i
give an indication of the price of that food in the foreign currency in question together with any commission to be charged; or
ii
clearly identify the conversion rate on the basis of which the foreign currency price will be calculated together with any commission to be charged; and
b
indicate that such price or conversion rate does not apply to transactions via a payment card to be applied to accounts denominated in currencies other than sterling, the conversion rate for which will be that applied by the relevant payment scheme which processes the transaction.
Savings for other enactments
8
Nothing in article 7 above shall require anything to be done if it would be a contravention by any person of a regulation made under, or having effect as if made under, sections 220, 221 or 224 of the Town and Country Planning Act 1990 or sections 182, 183 or 186 of the Town and Country Planning (Scotland) Act 1997 .
Gerry Sutcliffe,
Parliamentary Under Secretary of State for Employment Relations, Competition and Consumers,Department of Trade and Industry
1st September 2003


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Citation, commencement, application and interpretation
1
1
These Regulations may be cited as the Local Authorities (Calculation of Council Tax Base) (Amendment) (England) Regulations 2003 and shall come into force on 19th December 2003.
2
These Regulations apply in relation to authorities in England only .
3
In these Regulations “the principal Regulations ” means the Local Authorities (Calculation of Council Tax Base) Regulations 1992 .
Interpretation of the principal Regulations
2
In regulation 1(3) of the principal Regulations, at the end add the following definition —
“a relevant percentage” means a percentage by which the amount of council tax payable in respect of any chargeable dwelling and any day is reduced due to the application of a discount under section 11 or 11A ;
.
Calculation of the relevant amounts for a financial year beginning on or after 1 April 2004
3
Before regulation 5A of the principal Regulations, insert the following regulation —
Calculation of the relevant amounts for a financial year beginning on or after 1 April 2004
5AA
1
For the purposes of regulation 3, the relevant amount for a financial year beginning on or after April 1, 2004 (“the year”) for a valuation band (“the band”) is the amount found by applying the formula —
( H - Q + J ) × ( F divided by G )
where —
H is the number of chargeable dwellings in the area of the billing authority listed in the band on the relevant day calculated by the authority in accordance with paragraph (2) below;
Q is a factor to take account of the discounts to which the amount of council tax payable was subject on the relevant day calculated in accordance with paragraph (4) below;
J is the amount of any adjustment in respect of changes in the number of chargeable dwellings or discounts calculated by the authority in accordance with paragraph (6) below;
F is the number which, in the proportion set out in section 5(1), is applicable as regards the year to dwellings listed in the band;
G is the number which, in that proportion, is applicable as regards the year to dwellings listed in valuation band D.
2
The authority shall calculate the number of chargeable dwellings for the purposes of item H in paragraph (1) above by deducting from the number of dwellings listed in the band on the relevant day its estimate of the number of such dwellings which were exempt on that day.
3
For the purposes of paragraph (2) above, the authority shall ascertain the number of dwellings listed in any valuation band by reference to —
a
the state on the relevant day of the authority’s list, including any alterations of the list which were shown as having effect on that day; and
b
any alterations of the valuation list maintained by the listing officer for that authority which were not shown on the authority’s list but of which the authority had been informed by the listing officer and which had effect on that day.
4
Q is the aggregate of amounts found by multiplying, for each different relevant percentage, R by S, where —
R is the number of dwellings taken into account for the purposes of item H in paragraph (1) above, for which the amount of council tax payable for the relevant day was reduced by that relevant percentage, estimated by the authority in accordance with paragraph (5) below;
S is that relevant percentage.
5
The authority shall make the estimates required for the purpose of paragraph (4) above on the basis of all the information available to the authority on the relevant day.
6
The authority shall calculate the amount of any adjustment for the purposes of item J in paragraph (1) above as equal to the amount by which the number which the authority calculates in accordance with paragraph (7) below exceeds the number which the authority calculates in accordance with paragraph (8) below; and if there is no such excess, the adjustment shall be nil or, as the case may be, a negative amount.
7
Subject to paragraph (10) below, the authority shall calculate the aggregate of —
a
the authority’s estimate of the number of chargeable dwellings which are not ascertained for the purposes of paragraph (2) above as listed in the band on the relevant day but which will be listed in the band for the whole or part of the year; and
b
the aggregate of amounts found by multiplying, for each different relevant percentage, U by V, where —
U is the authority’s estimate of the number of dwellings in respect of which the amount of council tax payable for the relevant day was reduced by that relevant percentage and which were taken into account for the purposes of item R in paragraph (4) above, but in respect of which the amount of council tax payable for the whole or part of the year will not be reduced by that relevant percentage;
V is that relevant percentage.
8
Subject to paragraph (10) below, the authority shall calculate the aggregate of —
a
the authority’s estimate of the number of chargeable dwellings which are ascertained for the purposes of paragraph (2) above as listed in the band on the relevant day but which:
i
will not be listed in the band for the whole or part of the year; or
ii
will be exempt at any time in the year or that part of the year for which they will be listed; and
b
the aggregate of amounts found by multiplying, for each different relevant percentage, W by X, where —
W is the number of dwellings, taken into account for the purposes of item H in paragraph (1) above or falling within paragraph (7)(a) above, in respect of which the amount of council tax payable for the whole or part of the year will be reduced by that relevant percentage, and which were not taken into account for the purposes of item R in paragraph (1) above, estimated by the authority in accordance with paragraph (4) above;
X is that relevant percentage.
9
Paragraph (3) of regulation 4 shall apply for the purposes of making any of the calculations or estimates referred to in paragraphs (2), (7) and (8) above as it applies for the purposes of paragraph (2) of regulation 4.
10
Where it appears to the authority likely that —
a
a dwelling will be listed in a band in the authority’s list, or will not be so listed, for part of the year;
b
a dwelling will be exempt for part of the year during a period for which it will be listed in a band in the authority’s list; or
c
the amount of council tax payable in respect of a dwelling will be subject to a discount of a relevant percentage for part of the year;
the authority shall, for the purposes of making any of the estimates referred to in paragraphs (7) or (8) above, treat such a dwelling or discount as a fraction produced by dividing the number of days in that part of the year by the number of days in the year.
11
For the purposes of this regulation, the relevant day —
a
in respect of the financial year beginning on 1st April 2004 is 20th December 2003; and
b
in respect of financial years beginning on or after 1st April 2005 is 30th November in the financial year preceding that for which the relevant amount is calculated.
Band A dwellings: reductions for disability
4
In regulation 5A(1) of the principal Regulations, for “3 and 5” substitute “3, 5 and 5AA”.
Calculation of billing authority’s council tax base for a part of its area
5
Regulation 6(2) of the principal Regulations is amended as follows —
a
for “5 but”, substitute “5 or 5AA but”;
b
in sub-paragraph (c), after “regulation 5”, insert “or 5AA”.
Calculation of council tax base for the purposes of a major precepting authority
6
Regulation 7 of the principal Regulations is amended as follows —
a
in paragraph (1) —
i
for “5 and” substitute “5 or 5AA and”;
ii
after “regulation 5” insert “, or items H, Q and J in regulation 5AA”;
b
in paragraph (2) after “regulation 5” insert “, or items H, Q and J in regulation 5AA”.
Prescribed period
7
Regulation 8 of the principal Regulations is amended as follows —
a
in paragraph (1) omit the words “paragraph (2)” and substitute “paragraphs (2) and (3)”;
b
after paragraph (2) add —
3
In respect of the financial year beginning on 1st April 2004, the prescribed period for the purposes of item T in sections 33(1) and 44(1) of the 1992 Act and section 88(2) of the 1999 Act and item TP in sections 45(3) and 48(3) and (4) of the 1992 Act and item TP2 in section 89(4) of the 1999 Act is the period beginning on 21st December 2003 and ending with 31st January 2004.
Determination of billing authority’s council tax base
8
In regulation 9(3) of the principal Regulations, for “be, 5” substitute “be, 5 or 5AA”.
Signed by authority of the First Secretary of State
Phil Hope
Parliamentary Under Secretary of State,
Office of the Deputy Prime Minister
24th November 2003


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Citation, commencement and interpretation
1
This order may be cited as the Immigration (Passenger Transit Visa) Order 2003 and shall come into force on 2nd May 2003.
2
1
Subject to paragraph (4), in this Order a “transit passenger” means a person to whom paragraph (2) or (3) applies and who on arrival in the United Kingdom passes through to another country or territory without entering the United Kingdom.
2
This paragraph applies to a person who is a citizen or national of a country or territory listed in Schedule 1 to this Order.
3
This paragraph applies to a person holding a travel document issued by:
a
the purported “Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus”;
b
the former Socialist Republic of Yugoslavia;
c
the former Federal Republic of Yugoslavia; or
d
the former Zaire.
4
A person to whom paragraph (2) or (3) applies will not be a transit passenger if he:
a
has the right of abode in the United Kingdom under the Immigration Act 1971 ;
b
is a national of an EEA State; or
c
in the case of a national or citizen of the People’s Republic of China, holds a passport issued by either the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region or the Macao Special Administrative Region.
5
In paragraph (4) “EEA State” means a country which is a contracting party to the Agreement on the European Economic Area signed at Oporto on 2nd May 1992 as adjusted by the Protocol signed at Brussels on 17th March 1993 .
Requirement for a transit passenger to hold a transit visa
3
A transit passenger is required to hold a transit visa.
Method of application for a transit visa
4
An application for a transit visa may be made to any British High Commission, Embassy or Consulate which accepts such applications.
Revocations
5
The Orders specified in Schedule 2 to this Order are hereby revoked.
Beverley Hughes
Minister of State
Home Office
30th April 2003


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1
These Regulations may be cited as the British Nationality (Fees) Regulations 2003 and shall come into force on 1st January 2004.
2
In these Regulations —
“the 1981 Act ” means the British Nationality Act 1981; and
“the 1997 Act ” means the British Nationality (Hong Kong) Act 1997 .
2
1
The British Nationality (Fees) Regulations 1996 and the British Nationality (Fees) (Amendment) Regulations 1997 are hereby revoked.
2
Nothing in these Regulations shall affect the amount of any fee payable under those Regulations in respect of anything done in pursuance of an application or declaration of renunciation made before the coming into force of these Regulations.
3
1
Subject to paragraph (2) and regulations 5, 6 and 7 below, the fees specified in the right-hand column of the table in the Schedule to these Regulations are payable in connection with the applications made to the Secretary of State, and the things done in Great Britain and Northern Ireland, which are specified in the left-hand column of that table.
2
No fee is payable in connection with the administration of a citizenship oath, or oath and pledge (item 8 in the table) in a case where the oath, or oath and pledge, is administered by a justice of the peace.
4
1
The fee payable in respect of —
a
an application for the registration of a person as a British citizen, British overseas territories citizen, British Overseas citizen or British subject; or
b
an application for naturalisation as a British citizen or British overseas territories citizen;
shall be payable on the submission of the application.
2
On an application for registration or for a certificate of naturalisation by an applicant who is required by section 42 of the 1981 Act to make a citizenship oath and pledge at a citizenship ceremony, the fee payable in respect of the arrangement of a citizenship ceremony shall also be payable on the submission of the application.
3
Where the fee payable in respect of the arrangement of a citizenship ceremony is paid in accordance with paragraph (2) above and —
a
the Secretary of State refuses the application; or
b
the Secretary of State decides that the registration should be effected or the certificate should be granted, but disapplies the requirement to attend a citizenship ceremony because of the special circumstances of the case;
the fee paid in respect of the arrangement of a citizenship ceremony shall be refunded.
4
The fee payable in respect of the registration of a declaration of renunciation of British citizenship, British overseas territories citizenship, British Overseas citizenship or British subject status shall be payable on the submission of the declaration of renunciation.
5
1
Subject to paragraph (2), where a husband and wife apply at the same time for naturalisation as British citizens or British overseas territories citizens and are residing together at the time of the applications, the total fee payable in respect of the applications shall be the same as that for a single application.
2
Paragraph (1) does not apply to any fee which is payable in respect of the arrangement of a citizenship ceremony.
6
1
Where an application for the registration of a minor as a British citizen, British overseas territories citizen, British Overseas citizen or British subject is made at the same time as an application under the same or any other provision of the 1981 Act or the 1997 Act for the registration of some other minor having the same parent, the total fee payable in respect of the applications shall be the same as that for a single application.
2
In this regulation, “parent” includes a step-parent and an adoptive parent.
7
Where a declaration of renunciation of British citizenship, British overseas territories citizenship, British Overseas citizenship or British subject status is made by a person at the same time as a declaration of renunciation by him of another such citizenship or status, the total fee payable in respect of the registration of the declarations shall be the same as that for the registration of a single declaration.
8
1
Except as provided by paragraph (2) below, or where a fee is refunded under regulation 4(3) above, or where the Secretary of State otherwise directs, fees paid under these Regulations shall be paid into the Consolidated Fund in accordance with Treasury directions.
2
Fees paid in respect of the administration of a citizenship oath, or oath and pledge (item 8 in the table in the Schedule to these Regulations) shall be paid —
a
in England, Wales or Northern Ireland, if the oath, or oath and pledge, is administered by a commissioner for oaths or notary public, to the commissioner or notary public;
b
in Scotland, if the oath, or oath and pledge, is administered by a sheriff principal or sheriff, to the sheriff clerk or to any of his deputes, and, if by a notary public, to the notary public.
Beverley Hughes
Minister of State
Home Office
8th December 2003
We consent to these Regulations
Jim Murphy
John Heppell
Two of the Lords Commissioners of Her Majesty’s Treasury
8th December 2003


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1
This Order may be cited as the Army, Air Force and Naval Discipline Acts (Continuation) Order 2003.
2
The Army Act 1955 , the Air Force Act 1955 and the Naval Discipline Act 1957 shall continue in force for a period of twelve months beginning on the day immediately following 31st August 2003 (which is the date on which those Acts would otherwise expire).
A.K. Galloway
Clerk of the Privy Council


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1
These Regulations may be cited as The Goods Infringing Intellectual Property Rights (Customs) Regulations 2003 and shall come into force on 1st October 2003.
2
The Goods Infringing Intellectual Property Rights (Customs) Regulations 1999 shall be amended by deleting Regulation 6.
Ray McAfee
Commissioner of Customs and Excise
New King’s Beam House, London, SE1 9PJ
18th August 2003


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Citation and commencement
1
These Regulations may be cited as the Prosecution of Offences (Youth Courts Time Limits) (Revocation and Transitional Provision) Regulations 2003 and shall come into force on 22nd April 2003.
Revocation of regulations and transitional provision
2
1
The Prosecution of Offences (Youth Courts Time Limits) Regulations 1999 (“the 1999 Regulations ”) are hereby revoked.
2
Where a maximum period imposed by the 1999 Regulations began before 22nd April 2003 and would, apart from the revocation of the 1999 Regulations, end on or after that date, that maximum period shall continue to have effect as if the 1999 Regulations had not been revoked.
Charles Falconer
Minister of State
Home Office
26th March 2003


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Citation, commencement and interpretation
1
1
These Regulations may be cited as the Referral Orders (Amendment of Referral Conditions) Regulations 2003 and shall come into force on 18th August 2003.
2
In these Regulations, “the Sentencing Act ” means the Powers of Criminal Courts (Sentencing) Act 2000.
Amendment of Sentencing Act
2
1
In section 17(1) of the Sentencing Act, after “are satisfied in relation to an offence if” there is inserted “the offence is an offence punishable with imprisonment and”.
2
After section 17(1) of the Sentencing Act there is inserted —
1A
For the purposes of section 16(3) above, the discretionary referral conditions are satisfied in relation to an offence if the offence is not an offence punishable with imprisonment but the offender meets the conditions in paragraphs (a) to (c) of subsection (1) above.
3
In section 17(2) of the Sentencing Act —
a
after “the discretionary referral conditions are” there is inserted “also”; and
b
in paragraph (a), after “connected offences” there is inserted “(whether or not any of them is an offence punishable with imprisonment)”.
Paul Goggins
Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State
Home Office
19th June 2003


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Citation and commencement
1
This Order may be cited as the Primary Care Trusts (Establishment) Amendment Order 2003 and shall come into force on 1st August 2003.
Amendment of Primary Care Trust (Establishment) Orders
2
In each of the Primary Care Trust (Establishment) Orders listed in the Schedule article 8 (exercise of functions) shall be omitted.
Signed by authority of the Secretary of State for Health
John Hutton
Minister of State,
Department of Health
14th July 2003


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Citation, commencement and application
1
1
This Order may be cited as the Protection of Wrecks (RMS Titanic) Order 2003.
2
This Order shall come into force on the date, to be notified in the London, Edinburgh and Belfast Gazettes, on which the Agreement concerning the shipwrecked vessel RMS Titanic enters into force in respect of the United Kingdom.
3
Articles 8 and 9 do not apply to Scotland.
Interpretation
2
In this Order —
“the Agreement” means the Agreement concerning the shipwrecked vessel RMS Titanic ;
“artifacts” means the cargo of RMS Titanic and other contents, including those associated objects that are scattered in its vicinity and any portion of the hull; and
“relevant authorisation” means an authorisation granted by the appropriate authority of a State Party to the Agreement (other than the United Kingdom) in accordance with the provisions of that Agreement.
Designated area
3
For the purposes of this Order “the designated area” means the area within one kilometre of the point 41° 43−84'N 49° 57−23'W.
Restrictions as respects designated area
4
1
A person shall not in the designated area carry out any of the activities set out in paragraph (2), or cause or permit any other person to carry out any of those activities —
a
without a licence granted by the Secretary of State in accordance with the provisions of this Order,
b
contrary to any requirement, condition or restriction of such a licence, or
c
without, or contrary to any provision of, a relevant authorisation.
2
The activities referred to in paragraph (1) are as follows —
a
entry into the hull sections of RMS Titanic, including entry using equipment constructed or adapted for any purpose of diving or salvage operations;
b
activities aimed at the artifacts from RMS Titanic found outside the hull of RMS Titanic (other than activities relating to the conservation or curation of artifacts).
Licences for projects in designated area
5
1
The Secretary of State may grant a licence to authorise a project to carry out the activities described in article 4(2).
2
The Secretary of State shall grant a licence only in relation to a project which —
a
is justified by educational, scientific or cultural interests, including the need to protect the integrity of RMS Titanic and/or its artifacts from a significant threat, and
b
complies with the Rules Concerning Activities Aimed at the RMS Titanic and/or its Artifacts contained in the Schedule to this Order.
3
The Secretary of State shall grant a licence only after he has provided copies of the application for the licence to the relevant national authorities of the other State Parties to the Agreement and taken into account any comments received from those authorities within 90 days following the provision of those copies.
4
A licence granted under this article —
a
shall require the project to be carried out in accordance with the Rules Concerning Activities Aimed at the RMS Titanic and/or its Artifacts contained in the Schedule to this Order,
b
shall contain a condition that non-intrusive public access consistent with the Agreement shall not be precluded by the activities licensed, and
c
may contain such other conditions and restrictions as the Secretary of State considers appropriate.
5
Subject to the same conditions as apply as respects the granting of a licence, the Secretary of State may vary a licence.
Offences
6
1
A person who contravenes article 4(1) shall be guilty of an offence and liable on summary conviction to a fine not exceeding the statutory maximum or on conviction on indictment to a fine.
2
Any person who knowingly contravenes any requirement, condition or restriction of a licence granted under article 5 which relates to the conservation, curation or keeping together of artifacts, or relating to the provision of public access to artifacts, shall be guilty of an offence and liable on summary conviction to a fine not exceeding the statutory maximum or on conviction on indictment to a fine.
3
Any person who knowingly contravenes any requirement, condition or restriction of a licence granted under article 5 which relates to the reporting of the results to the Secretary of State and the publication of the results shall be guilty of an offence and liable on summary conviction to a fine not exceeding the statutory maximum or on conviction on indictment to a fine.
Offences: further provisions
7
1
Where an offence under this Order which is committed by a body corporate is proved to have been committed with the consent or connivance of, or to be attributable to any neglect on the part of, a director, manager, secretary or other similar officer of the body corporate, or any person who was purporting to act in any such capacity, he, as well as the body corporate, shall be guilty of that offence and shall be liable to be proceeded against and punished accordingly.
2
For this purpose “director”, in relation to any body corporate whose affairs are managed by its members, means any member of the body.
3
Where an offence under this Order committed by a Scottish partnership or unincorporated association (other than a partnership) is proved to have been committed with the consent of or connivance of, or to be attributable to neglect on the part of, a partner in the partnership or, as the case may be, a person concerned in the management and control of the association, he (as well as the partnership) shall be guilty of the offence and liable to be proceeded against and punished accordingly.
8
1
In any proceedings for an offence under this Order, a document signed by or on behalf of the Secretary of State stating whether or not a relevant authorisation has been granted, and (where such an authorisation has been granted) its terms, shall be admissible as evidence for the purposes of determining whether activities have been carried out without, or contrary to any provision of, such an authorisation.
2
Nothing in paragraph (1) makes a document admissible as evidence in proceedings for an offence except in a case where and to the like extent to which oral evidence to the like effect would have been admissible in those proceedings.
3
Nothing in paragraph (1) makes a document admissible as evidence in proceedings for an offence —
a
unless a copy of it has, not less than seven days before the hearing or trial, been served on the person charged with the offence, or
b
if that person, not later than three days before the hearing or trial or within such further time as the court may in special circumstances allow, serves a notice on the prosecutor requiring attendance at the trial of the person who signed the document.
4
Where the proceedings mentioned in paragraph (1) are proceedings before a magistrates' court inquiring into an offence as examining justices this article shall have effect with the omission of —
a
paragraph (2), and
b
in paragraph (3), sub-paragraph (b) and the word “or” immediately preceding it.
9
1
A document required by article 8(3)(a) to be served on a person charged with an offence under this Order may be served on that person —
a
by delivering it to him;
b
by leaving it at his proper address; or
c
by sending it by post to him at his proper address.
2
If the person charged with an offence is the master of a ship the document may be served —
a
where there is a master, by leaving it for him on board the ship with the person appearing to be in command or charge of the ship;
b
where there is no master, on —
i
the managing owner of the ship; or
ii
if there is no managing owner, on any agent of the owner; or
iii
where no such agent is known or can be found, by fixing a copy of the document on the outside of the ship in a position in which it may reasonably be expected to be seen.
3
A document required by article 8(3)(a) to be served on a person charged with an offence under this Order may —
a
in the case of a body corporate, be served on the secretary or clerk of that body;
b
in the case of a partnership, be served on a partner or person having the control or management of the partnership business.
4
For the purposes of this article and of section 7 of the Interpretation Act 1978 (service of documents by post) in its application to this article, the proper address of any person on whom a document under article 8(1) is to be served shall be his last known address, except that —
a
in the case of a body corporate or its secretary or clerk it shall be the address of the registered or principal office of that body;
b
in the case of a partnership or a person having the control or management of the partnership business, it shall be the principal office of the partnership;
and for the purposes of this paragraph the principal office of a company registered outside the United Kingdom or of a partnership carrying on business outside the United Kingdom shall be its principal office in the United Kingdom.
Enforcement powers
10
1
The powers conferred by this article are conferred in relation to any ship which is in United Kingdom waters and any United Kingdom ship which is in international waters.
2
A person appointed by the Secretary of State to be an inspector under section 256(1) or (6) of the Merchant Shipping Act 1995 , and any commissioned naval officer, shall be a person authorised by the Secretary of State in accordance with this Order.
3
A person so authorised by the Secretary of State may at any reasonable time board and search any ship if he has reason to suspect that this Order is not complied with, and may take possession of and detain anything found in the course of that search for so long as is necessary for all or any of the following purposes —
a
to examine it,
b
to ensure that it is not tampered with before his examination of it is completed,
c
to ensure that it is available for use as evidence in any proceedings for an offence under this Order.
Signed by authority of the Secretary of State for Transport
David Jamieson
Parliamentary Under Secretary of State,
Department for Transport
29th September 2003


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Citation
1
This Order may be cited as the Immigration and Asylum Act 1999 (Commencement No. 14) Order 2003.
Commencement
2
The provisions of the Immigration and Asylum Act 1999 specified in column 1 of the Schedule to this Order shall come into force on the date specified in column 2 of that Schedule, but where a particular purpose is specified in relation to any such provision in column 3 of that Schedule, the provision shall come into force on that date only for that purpose.
Beverley Hughes
Minister of State
Home Office
4th June 2003


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Citation, commencement and application
1
1
This Order may be cited as the Education (National Curriculum) (Key Stage 3 Assessment Arrangements) (England) Order 2003 and shall come into force on 1st May 2003.
2
The provisions of this Order apply for the purpose of ascertaining the achievements in the core and other foundation subjects of pupils who have completed the programme of study for the third key stage.
3
This Order applies to maintained schools (other than those established in hospitals) in England.
Revocation
2
The Education (National Curriculum) (Key Stage 3 Assessment Arrangements) (England) Order 1999 and the Education (National Curriculum) (Assessment Arrangements) (England) (Amendment) Order 2001 are hereby revoked.
Interpretation
3
1
In this Order–
“the associated documents” means the documents published by Her Majesty’s Stationery Office, setting out any levels of attainment, attainment targets and programmes of study in relation to the core and other foundation subjects, which documents have effect by virtue of the respective section 87(3)(a) and (b) orders for those subjects for the time being in force ;
“ AT ” means attainment target;
“the Authority” means the Qualifications and Curriculum Authority established under section 21 of the Education Act 1997 ;
“the core subjects” means English, mathematics and science;
“external marking agency” means a body nominated by the Authority and approved by the Secretary of State to mark NC tests;
“NC tests” means National Curriculum tests administered to pupils for the purpose of assessing the level of attainment which they have achieved in any core subject;
“NC assessment timetable” means a timetable for the administration of NC tests, being respectively tests and a timetable laid down in provisions made by the Secretary of State under article 12 which have been published by the Authority ;
“the other foundation subjects” means design and technology, information and communication technology, physical education, history, geography, art and design, music, citizenship and a modern foreign language specified in an order of the Secretary of State or, if the Order so specifies, any modern foreign language ;
“record of the results”, for the purposes of articles 8 and 10 , means a record of the results of a pupil in respect of the NC tests administered to him under article 8, consisting of a statement of each level of attainment achieved by the pupil;
“section 87(3)(a) and (b) orders” means orders made or which have effect as if they were made under section 87(3)(a) or (b) of the Education Act 2002 specifying attainment targets and programmes of study;
“specified” means specified in relation to the third key stage by a section 87(3)(a) and (b) order;
“summer term” means the final term in the school year.
2
In this Order references to the third key stage are, subject to the operation of section 82(2) to (5) of the Education Act 2002, references to the period set out in paragraph (c) of section 82(1) of that Act.
3
In this Order references to levels of attainment, attainment targets and programmes of study are references to the levels, targets and programmes set out in the associated documents.
4
Where any average number required to be determined by this Order is not a whole number, it shall be rounded to the nearest whole number, the fraction one half being rounded upwards to the next whole number.
Teacher assessment – general
4
1
Subject to paragraph (2), it shall be the duty of the head teacher to make arrangements for each pupil to be assessed by a teacher in each core and other foundation subject during the summer term in accordance with the provisions of this article and articles 5 to 7 and for a record of the results to be made by that teacher.
2
In the case of citizenship, the duty in paragraph (1) shall not have effect before 1 st January 2004.
3
The pupil shall be assessed and the results of the assessment recorded by the teacher not later than two weeks before the end of the summer term or 4th July falling in that term, if earlier.
4
In making an assessment of a pupil pursuant to this article and articles 5 to 7 a teacher may take into account the results of any previous assessment of the pupil (whether or not made by that teacher).
Teacher assessment – English, mathematics, modern foreign language and science
5
1
In the cases of English, mathematics, a modern foreign language and science, the purpose of the assessment shall be to determine the level of attainment achieved by the pupil in each AT specified for the subject that applies to him and, subject to article 6(3), in the subject as calculated in accordance with paragraph (3).
2
The results recorded shall consist of a statement of each level of attainment achieved by the pupil (whether or not that level is specified in relation to the third key stage by the relevant section 87(3)(a) and (b) order) in relation to every AT mentioned in paragraph (1) and, subject to article 6(3), of his level in the subject so calculated.
3
Subject to article 6, a pupil’s level of attainment in each subject shall be a/b where: a is the aggregate of his levels in each of the ATs weighted by the following factors: 4:9:4:3 and b is the number of those ATs weighted by the same factors (4:9:4:3).
Pupils not subject to provisions of the National Curriculum
6
1
Article 5(3) shall have effect in relation to pupils in respect of whom provisions of the National Curriculum do not apply (including pupils with statements of special educational needs) with the modifications specified in this article.
2
Where one AT in a subject does not apply to such a pupil, article 5(3) shall have effect as if the number of ATs applying to the pupil were the total number of ATs in the subject and as if the AT which does not apply, and any weighting in respect thereof, were ignored.
3
Where more than one AT in a subject does not apply to such a pupil, article 5(3) shall not apply to him in relation to that subject.
Teacher assessment – other foundation subjects
7
In the case of design and technology, information and communication technology, physical education, history, geography, art and design, music and citizenship, the purpose of the assessment shall be to determine the level of attainment achieved by the pupil in the subject, and the record of the results shall consist of a statement of that level .
NC test assessment
8
1
It shall be the duty of the head teacher to make arrangements for each pupil to whom this article applies in respect of a core subject to be assessed in that subject in accordance with the provisions of paragraph (3).
2
This article applies to a pupil in respect of a core subject if, in the opinion of his head teacher, his level of attainment in that subject, if he were to be assessed by the administration to him of NC tests in accordance with the provisions of paragraph (3), would be level 3 or higher (in the case of mathematics and science) or level 4 or higher (in the case of English).
3
Where this article applies to a pupil in respect of a core subject, NC tests shall be administered to the pupil in accordance with the provisions of the document in which they are published at the times specified in the relevant NC assessment timetable. As soon as reasonably practicable thereafter the pupil’s responses to the NC tests shall be provided to the external marking agency, determined by the Authority, to be marked. The Authority shall notify the head teacher of the identity of the external marking authority immediately following their determination.
4
As soon as reasonably practicable after the pupil’s responses to the NC tests in all the core subjects have been provided by the head teacher to the external marking agency pursuant to paragraph (3), the head teacher shall provide that agency with a statement, signed by himself, confirming that those NC tests were administered in accordance with the provisions of the document in which they are published at the times specified in the relevant NC assessment timetable.
5
Following the marking of NC tests, the external marking agency shall provide to the head teacher a record of the results.
Monitoring of assessment arrangements
9
1
This article makes provision for the monitoring of the NC test assessment under article 10, by the local education authority (referred to in this article as “the monitoring authority”).
2
In any school year the monitoring authority shall exercise their functions conferred by this article in any school year in relation to 10% of all relevant schools.
3
For the purposes of paragraphs (2) and (4), “relevant schools” are all schools maintained by the monitoring authority at which in any school year NC tests are administered to pupils under article 8.
4
Each school year the monitoring authority shall visit the relevant schools during any of the following periods–
a
the week before any NC tests are administered to pupils under article 8;
b
the period during which NC tests are administered to pupils under that article; or
c
three school days after the day on which the last NC test is administered to pupils under that article
and such a visit may be during any of these periods in respect of any of those schools.
5
The purpose of any such visit as is referred to in paragraph (4) shall be to enable the monitoring authority to monitor whether the assessment arrangements for the purposes of administering the NC tests under article 8 are in accordance with the provisions of the document in which those NC tests are published and the relevant NC assessment timetable, including, in the case of a visit under paragraph (4)(b), whether pupils' written responses to the NC tests represent their own work.
6
Following any such visit as is referred to in paragraph (4), the monitoring authority shall discuss the outcome of the visit with the head teacher.
7
Where, as a result of a visit, it appears to the monitoring authority that any of the assessment arrangements in connection with administering the NC tests under article 8 are not in accordance with the document in which those NC tests are published or the relevant NC assessment timetable or that any pupil’s written response to the NC tests does not represent his own work, they shall–
a
bring the matter to the attention of the head teacher; and
b
report the matter to the Authority.
8
It shall be the duty of the head teacher and the governing body–
a
to permit the monitoring authority to enter the premises of the school at all reasonable times in order to observe the implementation of the arrangements for NC test assessment under article 8;
b
to permit the monitoring authority to inspect and take copies of documents and other articles relating to that NC test assessment; and
c
to provide to the monitoring authority such information relating to such assessment as they may reasonably request.
9
For the purpose of exercising their functions under this article, the monitoring authority shall appoint such competent persons as they think fit.
Investigation by the Authority and correction of record of results
10
1
The Authority shall investigate any matter referred to them under article 9(7) or otherwise brought to their attention which, in their opinion, relates to the accuracy or correctness or otherwise of any results of any pupil in respect of the NC tests administered under article 8.
2
Where, following an investigation under paragraph (1) and before the external marking agency have provided the record of the results to the head teacher under article 8(5), the Authority determine that the accuracy or correctness of a pupil’s results in respect of the NC tests administered under article 8 is in doubt, the record of the results to be provided by that agency to the head teacher shall be the record of the results determined by the Authority.
3
Where, following an investigation under paragraph (1) and the external marking agency have provided the record of the results to the head teacher under article 8(5), the Authority determine that that record of the results is inaccurate or otherwise incorrect, the Authority shall provide to the head teacher a record of the results determined by the Authority and that record of the results shall be the record of the results for the pupil.
Evaluation of Assessment Arrangements
11
The Authority shall make such arrangements as seem to them appropriate for determining the extent to which the provisions of articles 4 to 8 and their implementation achieve the purpose mentioned in article 1(2).
Supplementary powers of the Secretary of State
12
The Secretary of State may make such provisions giving full effect to or otherwise supplementing the provisions made by this Order (other than provisions conferring or imposing functions as mentioned in section 87(7) of the Education Act 2002) as appear to him to be expedient, including in particular provisions as to NC tests for the purpose mentioned in the definition of such tests in article 3(1) and as to the time when and the manner in which the tests are to be administered.
Stephen Twigg
Parliamentary Under Secretary of State
Department for Education and Skills
7th April 2003


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Citation, commencement, interpretation and extent
1
1
These Regulations may be cited as the Local Government Pension Scheme (Amendment) (No. 2) Regulations 2003.
2
These Regulations shall come into force on 19th December 2003, but shall have effect from 1st January 2003.
3
In these Regulations “the principal Regulations ” means the Local Government Pension Scheme Regulations 1997 .
4
These Regulations extend only to England and Wales .
Amendment of Regulations
2
The principal Regulations shall be amended in accordance with regulations 3 to 9 of these Regulations.
Employees of non-Scheme employers: community admission bodies
3
For regulation 5 substitute —
Employees of non-Scheme employers: community admission bodies
5
1
Subject to the requirements of this regulation and regulation 5B, an administering authority may make an admission agreement with any community admission body.
2
These are community admission bodies —
a
a body, other than the governors or managers of a voluntary school, which provides a public service in the United Kingdom otherwise than for the purposes of gain and which either —
i
has sufficient links with a Scheme employer for the body and the Scheme employer to be regarded as having a community of interest, whether because the operations of the body are dependent on the operations of the Scheme employer or otherwise, or
ii
is approved by the Secretary of State for the purposes of admission to the Scheme;
b
a body, other than the governors or managers of a voluntary school, to the funds of which any Scheme employer contributes;
c
a body representative —
i
of local authorities,
ii
of local authorities and officers of local authorities,
iii
of officers of local authorities which is formed for the purpose of consultation as to the common interests of local authorities and the discussion of matters relating to local government, or
iv
of Scheme employers;
d
the Housing Corporation;
e
the Commission for the New Towns;
f
a company for the time being subject to the influence of a local authority as described in section 69 of the Local Government and Housing Act 1989 ; and
g
a company for the time being subject to the influence of a Scheme employer listed in Schedule 2 (other than a local authority) as described in section 69 of the Local Government and Housing Act 1989 as if references in that section to a local authority were references to the listed Scheme employer.
3
Approval under paragraph (2)(a)(ii) may be subject to such conditions as the Secretary of State thinks fit and he may withdraw approval at any time if such conditions are not met.
4
Where, at the date that the admission agreement is made with a body within paragraph (2)(b), the contributions paid to the body by any one or more Scheme employers equal in total 50% or less of the total amount it receives from all sources, it must be a term of the admission agreement that the Scheme employer who provides funding (and, if more than one, all of them) guarantees the liability of the body to pay all amounts due from it under the Regulations.
5
For the purposes of paragraph (2)(c) and (f), “local authority” includes the Greater London Authority.
Employees of non-Scheme employers: transferee admission bodies
5A
1
Subject to the requirements of this regulation and regulation 5B, an administering authority may make an admission agreement with any transferee admission body.
2
A transferee admission body is a body, other than a community admission body, that is providing, or will provide —
a
a service or assets in connection with the exercise of a function of a Scheme employer as a result of —
i
the transfer of the service or assets by means of a contract or other arrangement;
ii
a direction made under section 15 of the Local Government Act 1999 ; or
iii
directions made under section 497A of the Education Act 1996 ; or
b
a public service and which is approved by the Secretary of State for the purposes of admission to the Scheme.
3
Only those employees of the transferee admission body who are employed in connection with the provision of the service or assets referred to in paragraph (2) are eligible to be members of the Scheme.
4
In the case of an admission agreement with a transferee admission body under paragraph (2)(a) the Scheme employer, if it is not also the administering authority, must be a party to the admission agreement.
5
Approval under paragraph (2)(b) may be subject to such conditions as the Secretary of State thinks fit and he may withdraw approval at any time if such conditions are not met.
6
An admission agreement with a transferee admission body shall require that:
a
in the case of a body under —
i
paragraph 2(a), the Scheme employer; or
ii
paragraph 2(b), the transferee admission body, to the satisfaction of the administering authority,
shall carry out an assessment, taking account of actuarial advice, of the level of risk arising on premature termination of the provision of the service or assets by reason of the insolvency, winding up or liquidation of the transferee admission body, and
b
that where the level of risk identified by the assessment is such as to require it, the transferee admission body shall enter into an indemnity or bond to meet the level of risk identified.
7
The indemnity or bond must be with —
a
a person who has permission under Part 4 of the Financial Services and Markets Act 2000 to accept deposits or to effect and carry out contracts of general insurance;
b
an EEA firm of the kind mentioned in paragraph 5(b) and (d) of Schedule 3 to that Act, which has permission under paragraph 15 of that Schedule (as a result of qualifying for authorisation under paragraph 12 of that Schedule) to accept deposits or to effect and carry out contracts of general insurance; or
c
a person who does not require permission under that Act to accept deposits, by way of business, in the United Kingdom.
8
An admission agreement with a transferee admission body shall make provision for the relevant matters set out in Schedule 2A.
9
Where a transferee admission body undertakes to meet the relevant requirements of this regulation, and —
a
in the case of a body under paragraph 2(a), the Scheme employer undertakes to meet the relevant requirements of this regulation; or
b
in the case of a body under paragraph (2)(b), the Secretary of State approves the body for admission to the Scheme and the conditions, if any, to which the approval is subject have been met;
an administering authority must admit to the Scheme the eligible employees of the transferee admission body specified by the body and where it does so, the terms on which it does so are the admission agreement for the purposes of these Regulations.
Requirements for admission agreements
5B
1
In regulations 5 and 5A an admission agreement is an agreement that all or any specified class of the admission body’s employees may be members.
2
An admission agreement must terminate if the admission body ceases to be such a body and may make such other provision about its termination as the parties consider appropriate.
3
When an administering authority makes an admission agreement, it must promptly inform the Secretary of State of the date the agreement takes effect, the admission body’s name and, in the case of an admission agreement with a transferee admission body under paragraph 5A(2)(a), the name of the relevant Scheme employer.
4
An administering authority must notify the Commissioners of the Inland Revenue of the admission of an admission body within the time prescribed in regulations made under section 605 of the Taxes Act and provide such information as may be so prescribed.
5
An administering authority and an admission body may make an admission agreement despite the fact that they do not exercise their functions or provide services or assets in areas that overlap or adjoin each other.
6
Any question which may arise between the parties to an admission agreement relating to the construction of the agreement or the rights and obligations under that agreement shall be referred in writing for determination to the Secretary of State.
7
An employee of an admission body may not be a member if he is a member of another occupational pension scheme (within the meaning of section 1 of the Pension Schemes Act 1993 ) other than where the accrual of benefits under the occupational pension scheme would not affect approval of the Scheme as an approved scheme.
8
These Regulations apply to employment with an admission body in which the employee is an active member in the same way as if the admission body were a Scheme employer.
.
Further restriction on eligibility
4
For regulation 6(10) substitute —
10
A person who is a member and is an employee of a transferee admission body is treated as leaving a local government employment when he ceases to be employed in connection with the provision of the service or assets under regulation 5A(2) as a result of which employment he became eligible to join the Scheme.
.
Re-employed and rejoining deferred members
5
For regulation 32(11) substitute —
11
In the case of a member who first becomes a member on or after 13th January 2000 any period of membership in the employment of a community admission body within —
a
regulation 5(2)(a)(ii); or
b
regulation 5(2)(b) where, at the date that the admission agreement is made, the contributions paid to the body by any one or more Scheme employers equal in total 50% or less of the total amount it receives from all sources;
shall not be aggregated with any other periods of membership for the purpose of calculating his retirement grant.
Special circumstances where revised actuarial valuations and certificates must be obtained
6
In regulation 78(2A) —
a
for “a guarantee or indemnity” substitute “an indemnity or bond”;
b
for “5(17)(i)” substitute “5A(2)(a)”; and
c
delete “transferor” and “within the meaning of regulation 5(17)(j)”.
Interpretation
7
In Schedule 1 —
a
in the definition of “Admission Agreement”, for “5(2)” substitute “5B(1)”;
b
in the definition of “Admission agreement employee”, for “5(16)” substitute “5B(8)”;
c
in the definition of “Admission body”, for “regulation 5(3)” substitute “regulations 5(2) and 5A(2)”; and
d
in the definition of “Scheme employer”, for “5(16)” substitute “5B(8)”.
Matters to be included in an admission agreement in certain cases
8
For Schedule 2A, substitute Schedule 2A as set out in the Schedule to these Regulations.
Revenue restrictions
9
In paragraph 1(1) of Schedule 4, for the definition of “continuity break” substitute —
“continuity break” is a change of employment from a Scheme employer (including an admission body) to —
a community admission body within —
regulation 5(2)(a)(ii); or
regulation 5(2)(b) where, at the date that the admission agreement is made, the contributions paid to the body by any one or more Scheme employers equal in total 50% or less of the total amount it receives from all sources; or
a transferee admission,
but does not include a change in the case of a person who was a member of the Scheme on 13th January 2000.
.
Transitional provisions
10
Nothing in these regulations shall affect any admission agreement made in accordance with the principal Regulations before the date on which these Regulations came into force and so far as it is necessary to give effect to any such agreement, the principal Regulations shall be treated as if they had continued in effect without the amendments made by these Regulations.
Signed by authority of the Secretary of State
Phil Hope
Parliamentary Under Secretary of State,
Office of the Deputy Prime Minister
19th November 2003


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Citation, interpretation and application
1
1
This Order may be cited as the Health and Social Care Act 2001 (Commencement No. 13) (England) Order 2003.
2
In this Order, “ the Act ” means the Health and Social Care Act 2001.
3
This Order applies to England only.
Appointed day in respect of independent advocacy services.
2
1st September 2003 is the appointed day for the coming into force of —
a
section 12 of the Act (independent advocacy services); and
b
paragraph 6 of Schedule 5 to the Act (minor and consequential amendments) and, in so far as it relates to that paragraph, section 67(1) of the Act.
Signed by authority of the Secretary of State for Health
Rosie Winterton
Minister of State,
Department of Health
29th August 2003


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Citation and Commencement
1
This Order may be cited as the Northern Ireland Act 1998 (Modification) Order 2003 and shall come into force on 19th August 2003.
Modification of the Northern Ireland Act 1998
2
In subsection (6) of section 87 of the Northern Ireland Act 1998 at the end there shall be added the following paragraph —
q
the State Pension Credit Act 2002 and the State Pension Credit Act (Northern Ireland) 2002
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A.K. Galloway
Clerk of the Privy Council


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Citation and commencement
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These Regulations may be cited as the M62 Motorway (City of Liverpool) (Speed Limit) Regulations 2003 and shall come into force on 10th November 2003.
Imposition of speed limit
2
No person shall drive any motor vehicle at a speed exceeding 50 miles per hour on a length of the westbound carriageway of the M62 Motorway from the boundary of the City of Liverpool to a point 985 metres west of that boundary.
Signed by authority of the Secretary of State for Transport
David Jamieson
Parliamentary Under Secretary of State,
Department for Transport
8th October 2003


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Citation, commencement and application
1
1
These Regulations may be cited as the National Assistance (Sums for Personal Requirements) (England) Regulations 2003 and shall come into force on 7th April 2003.
2
These Regulations apply to England only .
Sum needed for personal requirements
2
The sum which under section 22(4) of the National Assistance Act 1948 a local authority shall assume that a person will need for his personal requirements shall be £17.50 per week.
Revocation
3
The National Assistance (Sums for Personal Requirements) (England) Regulations 2002 are hereby revoked.
Signed by authority of the Secretary of State for Health
Jacqui Smith
Minister of State,
Department of Health
10th March 2003


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1
These Regulations may be cited as the Advanced Television Services (Amendment) Regulations 2003 and shall come into force on 17th November 2003.
2
In the definition of “wide-screen television service” in regulation 3 of the Advanced Television Services Regulations 2003 , for “height-width ratio” there shall be substituted “width-height ratio”.
Stephen Timms,
Minister of State for Energy, E-Commerce and Postal Services,
Department of Trade and Industry
27th October 2003


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Citation and commencement
1
These Regulations may be cited as the Medicines (Pharmacies) (Applications for Registration and Fees) Amendment Regulations 2003 and shall come into force on 1st January 2004.
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 “£156” substitute “£163” and for “£83” (fee where premises are in Northern Ireland) substitute “£86”;
b
in paragraph (2) (retention fee), for “£101” substitute “£125” and for “£92” (fee where premises are in Northern Ireland) substitute “£112”;
c
in paragraph (3) (additional sum by way of penalty), for “£323” substitute “£336” and for “£240” (sum where premises are in Northern Ireland) substitute “£250”.
Revocation
3
The Medicines (Pharmacies) (Applications for Registration and Fees) Amendment Regulations 2002 are hereby revoked.
Signed by authority of the Secretary of State for Health
Rosie Winterton
Minister of State,
Department of Health
4th December 2003
Sealed with the Official Seal of the Department of Health, Social Services and Public Safety
D C Gowdy
Permanent Secretary,
Department of Health, Social Services and Public Safety
2nd December 2003