The Government Resources and Accounts Act 2000 (Estimates and Accounts) (Amendment) Order 2016

Made: 19th December 2016

Laid before Parliament: 19th December 2016

Coming into force: 31st January 2017

In accordance with section 4A(8) of that Act the Treasury have consulted, where they think it appropriate, the Scottish Ministers, the Department of Finance and Personnel for Northern Ireland and the Welsh Ministers.

Title, commencement and interpretation

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• (1) This Order may be cited as the Government Resources and Accounts Act 2000 (Estimates and Accounts) (Amendment) Order 2016.

• (2) This Order comes into force on 31st January 2017.

• (3) In this Order, “the principal Order” means the Government Resources and Accounts Act 2000 (Estimates and Accounts) Order 2016[^f00002].

Amendments to the principal Order

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• (1) The principal Order is amended as follows.

• (2) For the Schedule (designated bodies) to the principal Order, substitute the Schedule which is set out in the Schedule to this Order.

SCHEDULE — Schedule to be substituted for the Schedule to the principal Order

Signed

David Evennett — Robert Syms — Two of the Lords Commissioners of Her Majesty’s Treasury — 19th December 2016

Explanatory note

(This note is not part of the Order)

EXPLANATORY NOTE

This Order amends the Government Resources and Accounts Act 2000 (Estimates and Accounts) Order 2016 (S.I. 2016/323) (“the principal Order”), which designates specified central government bodies in relation to named government departments for the purpose of those departments’ supply estimates and resource accounts.

A new Schedule is substituted for the Schedule to the principal Order. The effect of this amendment is that additional bodies are designated, the names of some bodies are changed, some bodies are no longer designated and certain named government departments are changed to reflect machinery of government changes.

The designations have effect for the financial year which ends on 31st March 2017.

This Order will have no effect on the costs of business or the voluntary sector. For that reason no impact assessment has been produced.

Footnotes

[^f00001]: 2000 c.20. Section 4A was inserted into the Government Resources and Accounts Act 2000 by section 43(2) of the Constitutional Reform and Governance Act 2010 (c.25).

[^f00002]: S.I. 2016/323.

[^f00003]: 1996 c.14.

[^f00004]: 1997 c.50. The independent monitor is appointed under section 119B of the Police Act 1997. Section 119B was inserted by section 28 of the Safeguarding Vulnerable Groups Act 2006 (c.47).

[^f00005]: The Independent Reviewer of Terrorism Legislation is appointed under section 36 of the Terrorism Act 2006 (c.11).

[^f00006]: 2002 c.29. Sections 47H, 127H and 195H were inserted respectively by sections 55(2), 56(2) and 57(2) of the Policing and Crime Act 2009 (c.26).

[^f00007]: 2006 c.41.

[^f00008]: Section 14D was inserted by section 25(1) of the Health and Social Care Act 2012 (c.7).

[^f00009]: 2011 c.25. Paragraphs (ba) to (bd) of section 149(7) were inserted by paragraph 184(c) of Schedule 5 to the Health and Social Care Act 2012.

[^f00010]: 1964 c.16. The Board was established by order (S.I. 1964/1079) made under section 1 of the Industrial Training Act 1964. The Industrial Training Act 1964 was repealed by Schedule 4 to the Industrial Training Act 1982 (c.10) and that Act now makes provision about the Board’s functions.