Crown Agents Act 1979

Section 3.

SCHEDULE 3 Scheduled Authorities and Bodies

PART I Descriptions of Authorities and Bodies for whom Crown Agents can Act as Agents

1 The government of any colony or associated state or of any country or territory outside Her Majesty's dominions in which Her Majesty has jurisdiction in right of Her Government in the United Kingdom.

2 The government of any other country or territory outside the United Kingdom (including, in the case of any territory which is under both a local and a central government, the local as well as the central government).

3 Any department of the Government of the United Kingdom or of the Government of Northern Ireland, and any Minister of the Crown in charge of such a department.

4 Any organisation whose members consist of or include two or more of the following, namely sovereign Powers or the Governments of such Powers.

5 Any non-profit-making authority or body of an international character established by or under any treaty or other international agreement.

6 Any public authority or public body established under the law of—

(a) any part of the United Kingdom; or

(b) any country or territory outside the United Kingdom.

7 Any organisation or body established for charitable purposes.

8 Any body corporate the whole of whose issued share capital is held, directly or through a nominee, by an authority or body within any of paragraphs 1 to 7.

9 Any body corporate for the time being approved by the Minister for the purposes of this paragraph, being a body more than half (but less than the whole) of whose issued share capital is held as mentioned in paragraph 8.

10 The trustees of any pension fund maintained by any authority or body within any of paragraphs 1 to 9.

11 Any body corporate for the time being approved by the Minister for the purposes of this paragraph, being a co-operative established under the law of any country or territory outside the United Kingdom.

PART II Supplementary

1 If any question arises whether a particular authority or body is a scheduled authority or body, that question shall be referred to and determined by the Minister.

2 A determination by the Minister under the preceding paragraph—

(a) shall be conclusive for the purposes of this Act; but

(b) may (without prejudice to its previous operation) be revoked by the Minister at any time if satisfied that the authority or body to which it relates has, in consequence of a change in its status or for any other reason, ceased to be or, as the case may be, become a scheduled authority or body.