Statistics of Trade Act 1947

11 Orders. U.K.

(1)The Board of Trade may by order make provision—

(a)for prescribing, either generally or with respect to any class or description of persons or undertakings, anything which under this Act is to be prescribed;

(b)generally for carrying the purposes of this Act into effect.

(2)All orders made by the Board under this Act, other than orders made under section nine of this Act, shall be laid before Parliament immediately after they are made, and if either House of Parliament, within the period of forty days beginning with the day on which any such order is laid before it, resolves that the order be annulled, the order shall cease to have effect but without prejudice to anything previously done thereunder or to the making of a new order.

In reckoning any such period of forty days, no account shall be taken of any time during which Parliament is dissolved or prorogued or during which both Houses are adjourned for more than four days.

(3)Any order under this Act may be revoked or varied by a subsequent order made in like manner and subject to the like conditions as the original order.

Modifications etc. (not altering text)

C1Certain functions of the Secretary of State transferred by S.I. 1989/992, art. 2(1)(2)