The Companies House Trading Fund (Amendment) Order 2009

Made: 2nd October 2009

Coming into force immediately after it is made

The Secretary of State makes the following Order in exercise of the powers conferred by sections 1, 2 and 6(1) of the Act of 1973, and with the concurrence of the Treasury.

1

This Order may be cited as the Companies House Trading Fund (Amendment) Order 2009 and comes into force immediately after it is made.

2

• (1) The Companies House Trading Fund Order 1991 is amended as follows.

• (2) In article 2—

• (a) after the definition of “the Act of 1973” insert—

• “the additional funded operations” means— the operations described in paragraphs 1, 2 and 4 of Schedule 1 to this Order when carried on in exercise of the functions of the registrar of companies for Northern Ireland in accordance with the Companies Act 2006, and without prejudice to paragraph (a), the performance by the registrar of companies for Northern Ireland of any function imposed upon him by law as at 1st October 2009 and the performance of any functions performed as at that date by any officer employed within Companies House which immediately before it had been entrusted to that officer had been functions of the Department of Enterprise, Trade and Investment for Northern Ireland;

• (b) in the definition of “the registrar of companies”, for “the Companies Act 1985” substitute “the Companies Act 2006”.

• (3) At the end of article 3 insert “and as from the time of the coming into force of the Companies House Trading Fund (Amendment) Order 2009 those operations are extended to include the additional funded operations”.

• (4) After article 5(1) insert—

(1A) As from the time of the coming into force of the Companies House Trading Fund (Amendment) Order 2009 there shall be additionally appropriated— (a) as assets of the fund the following Crown assets, namely— (i) the register of companies for Northern Ireland; (ii) current assets as at that time used or allocated for use in, or arising from, the additional funded operations; and (b) as liabilities of the fund the following Crown liabilities, namely creditors as at that time arising from the additional funded operations.

Signed

Davies of Abersoch — Minister for Trade, Investment and Small Business, — Department for Business, Innovation and Skills — 1st October 2009

We concur.

Bob Blizzard — Dave Watts — Two of the Lords Commissioners of Her Majesty’s Treasury — 2nd October 2009

Explanatory note

(This note is not part of the Order)

EXPLANATORY NOTE

This Order amends the Companies House Trading Fund Order 1991 (S.I. 1991/1795) by adding to the operations of Companies House funded under that Order its operations as the companies registry for Northern Ireland in accordance with the extension of the Companies Act 2006 to Northern Ireland. The Order adds to the assets and liabilities of the Companies House Trading Fund assets and liabilities attributable to the operations of the companies registry for Northern Ireland. The additional assets are estimated to have a value of £5,000 and the additional liabilities are estimated to have a value of £5,000.

Footnotes

[^f00001]: S.I. 1991/1795.

[^f00002]: 1973 c.63, as amended by the Government Trading Act 1990 (c.30). That Act, as so amended, is set out in Schedule 1 to the Act of 1990. Section 2 of the Act, as so amended, was further amended by section 119 of the Finance Act 1991 (c.31). There are further amendments to the Government Trading Funds Act 1973 which are not relevant to this Order.