The Industrial Training Levy (Engineering Construction Board) Order 1998

Explanatory Note

(This note is not part of the Order)

This Order gives effect to proposals of the Engineering Construction Industry Training Board which were submitted to the Secretary of State. The proposals are for the imposition of a levy on employers in the engineering construction industry (including employers who are not mainly engaged in engineering construction activities but are engaged in any related or administrative activities of a kind to which paragraph 1(c) of Schedule 1 to the Industrial Training (Engineering Board) Order 1964 (as amended by the Industrial Training (Engineering Construction Board) Order 1991) applies; and for those employers the levy will be imposed only in respect of the said related or administrative activities) for the purpose of raising money towards meeting the expenses of the Board.

The levy is to be imposed in respect of the thirty-fourth levy period commencing on the day upon which this Order comes into force and ending on 31st August 1998.

Subject to the exemptions in articles 4 and 5, the levy will be assessed by the Board in accordance with article 3, and there will be a right of appeal against an assessment to an industrial tribunal.

A full compliance cost assessment of the effect that this Order will have on the costs of business is available from the Department for Education and Employment, Library and Information Service, Moorfoot, Sheffield S1 4PQ or Sanctuary Buildings, Great Smith Street, London SW1P 3BT.