The Race Relations (Prescribed Public Bodies) (No. 2) Regulations 1994

Made: 19th July 1994

Laid before Parliament: 26th July 1994

Coming into force: 8th November 1994

The Minister for the Civil Service, in exercise of the powers conferred on him by section 75(5)(a) of the Race Relations Act 1976[^f00001], hereby makes the following Regulations:

1

These Regulations may be cited as the Race Relations (Prescribed Public Bodies) (No. 2) Regulations 1994 and shall come into force on 8th November 1994.

2

The public bodies specified in the Schedule to these Regulations shall be public bodies prescribed for the purposes of section 75(5) of the Race Relations Act 1976.

3

The Race Relations (Prescribed Public Bodies) Regulations 1994[^f00002] are hereby revoked.

SCHEDULE — PRESCRIBED PUBLIC BODIES

• Bank of England

• Board of Trustees of the Armouries

• British Council

• House of Commons

• House of Lords

• Metropolitan Police Office

• National Army Museum

• National Audit Office

• Natural Environment Research Council

• United Kingdom Atomic Energy Authority

Signed

Given under the official seal of the Minister for the Civil Service on 19th July 1994.

William Waldegrave — Authorised on behalf of the Minister for the Civil Service

Explanatory note

(This note is not part of the Regulations)

Section 75(5) of the Race Relations Act 1976 preserves the validity of rules restricting employment by public bodies prescribed under that section to persons of particular birth, nationality, descent or residence, and enables such rules, notwithstanding anything in the Act, to be published, displayed or implemented and advertisements to be published stating the gist of such rules. These Regulations prescribe certain public bodies under section 75(5) and replace the Race Relations (Prescribed Public Bodies) Regulations 1994 which are revoked.

The effects of the new Regulations are:

• (1) to remove the Science and Engineering Research Council (SERC) from the former list of prescribed public bodies in SI 1994/109. Surrender of the Charter of the SERC was approved by Her Majesty in Council on 13 April 1994. Royal Charters granted by Her Majesty in Council on 16 December 1993 incorporated three new bodies which by Orders in Council dated 24 February 1994 were declared to be Research Councils for the purposes of section 1(1)(c) of the Science and Technology Act 1965. The three new Research Councils now have between them responsibility for most areas of research previously covered by the SERC. None of these new Research Councils wishes to be prescribed under the provisions of the 1976 Act.

• (2) to give effect to changes in the way four of the bodies are listed by omitting the limiting words which followed their titles in SI 1994/109 and by substituting the correct statutory title, “Metropolitan Police Office”, in place of “Metropolitan Police Service”.

Footnotes

[^f00001]: 1976 c. 74

[^f00002]: SI 1994/109