The Government Resources and Accounts Act 2000 (Estimates and Accounts) (Amendment) Order 2020

Made: 8th January 2020

Laid before Parliament: 9th January 2020

Coming into force: 31st January 2020

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 2020.

• (2) This Order comes into force on 31st January 2020.

• (3) In this Order, “the principal Order” means the Government Resources and Accounts Act 2000 (Estimates and Accounts) Order 2019[^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 set out in the Schedule to this Order.

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

Signed

David Rutley — Rebecca Harris — Two of the Lords Commissioners of Her Majesty’s Treasury — 8th January 2020

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 2019 (S.I. 2019/476) (“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 and some bodies are no longer designated.

The designations have effect for the financial year which ends on 31st March 2020.

An impact assessment has not been prepared for this instrument as no impact on the private or voluntary sector is foreseen. An Explanatory Memorandum is available alongside the instrument on www.legislation.gov.uk.

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. 2019/476.

[^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]: 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) and section 303E was inserted by section 15 of Criminal Finances Act 2017 (c.22).

[^f00006]: 2006 c.41.

[^f00007]: Section 14D was inserted by section 25(1) of the Health and Social Care Act 2012 (c.7).

[^f00008]: 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.