The Films Co-Production Agreements (Amendment) Order 2009

Made: 17th November 2009

Coming into force: 1st January 2010

At the Court at Buckingham Palace, the 17th day of November 2009Present,The Queen’s Most Excellent Majesty in Council

Her Majesty, in exercise of the powers conferred by paragraph 4(5) of Schedule 1 to the Films Act 1985[^f00001], is pleased, by and with the advice of Her Privy Council, to make the following Order:

Citation and commencement

1

This order may be cited as the Films Co-Production Agreements (Amendment) Order 2009 and shall come into force on 1st January 2010.

Amendment to the Films Co-Production Agreements Order 1985

2

The Films Co-Production Agreements Order 1985[^f00002] shall be amended by substituting for the schedule the following–

SCHEDULE

Revocation

3

The Films Co-Production Agreements (Amendment) Order 2008[^f00003] is revoked.

Signed

Judith Simpson — Clerk of the Privy Council

Explanatory note

(This note is not part of the Order)

EXPLANATORY NOTE

The Films Co-Production Agreements Order 1985 (“the principal Order”) provides that films made in accordance with the agreements between the Government of the United Kingdom and the Governments of other countries listed in the Schedule are to be treated as British films for the purposes of Schedule 1 to the Films Act 1985. This Order extends the list of agreements scheduled to the principal Order to include an agreement with Morocco of 12th October 2009 (Cm. 7670). The agreement with Morocco was laid before Parliament on 4th November 2009 and is available from the Foreign and Commonwealth Office website: www.fco.gov.uk. This Order also revokes a previous Order which amended the Schedule to the principal Order and has now been superseded.

Footnotes

[^f00001]: 1985 c.21. Paragraph 4(5) was substituted by the Films (Definition of “British Film”) Order 2006 (S.I. 2006/643).

[^f00002]: S.I. 1985/960, as amended by the Order mentioned in article 3.

[^f00003]: S.I. 2008/1783.