The Government Resources and Accounts Act 2000 (Estimates and Accounts) (Amendment) Order 2023

Made: 12th December 2023

Laid before Parliament: 13th December 2023

Coming into force: 31st January 2024

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.

Citation, commencement, extent 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 2023 and comes into force on 31st January 2024.

• (2) This Order extends to England and Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland.

• (3) In this Order, “the principal Order” means the Government Resources and Accounts Act 2000 (Estimates and Accounts) Order 2023[^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

Amanda Solloway — Stuart Anderson — Two of the Lords Commissioners of His Majesty’s Treasury — 12th December 2023

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 2023 (S.I. 2023/352) (“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 some bodies are designated in relation to a different government department.

The designations have effect for the financial year which ends on 31st March 2024.

An impact assessment has not been prepared for this instrument as no impact on the private or voluntary sector is foreseen.

Footnotes

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

[^f00002]: S.I. 2023/352.

[^f00003]: 2006 c. 41.

[^f00004]: 2011 c. 25. Section 149(7) was amended by paragraph 184 of Schedule 5 to the Health and Social Care Act 2012 (c. 7), paragraph 15 of Schedule 1 to the NHS (Charitable Trusts Etc) Act 2016 (c. 10) and paragraph 1 of Schedule 1, and paragraph 174 of Schedule 4, to the Health and Care Act 2022 (c. 31).

[^f00005]: Section 14Z25 was inserted by section 19(2) of the Health and Care Act 2022.

[^f00006]: 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).

[^f00007]: 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 the Criminal Finances Act 2017 (c. 22).

[^f00008]: 1996 c. 14.

[^f00009]: 2002 c. 9. Section 127(2) was amended by paragraph 302 of Schedule 4 to the Constitutional Reform Act 2005 (c. 4) and section 36 of the Infrastructure Act 2015 (c. 7).