The Transfer of Functions (Arts, Libraries and National Heritage) Order 1983

Article 2

SCHEDULE 1 FUNCTIONS TRANSFERRED

PART I ENACTMENTS

• Patents and Designs Act 1907 (c. 29), section 47.

• Imperial War Museum Act 1920 (c. 16), sections 2(b), (c) and (d) and 3(2) and paragraphs (1) and (8) of the Schedule.

• National Maritime Museum Act 1934 (c. 43), sections 2(3), 4 and 6(2).

• National Theatre Act 1949 (c. 16).

• British Film Institute Act 1949 (c. 35), section 1.

• Finance Act 1953 (c. 34), section 30.

• National Gallery and Tate Gallery Act 1954 (c. 65), sections 2(4), 3 and 4(2), (3) and (4).

• Finance (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act (Northern Ireland) 1954 (c. 3) (N.I.), section 1.

• Imperial War Museum Act 1955 (c. 14), section 2(1).

• Finance Act 1956 (c. 54), section 34(1).

• British Museum Act 1963 (c. 24), sections 1(1)(c) and 10.

• Museum of London Act 1965 (c. 17).

• British Library Act 1972 (c. 54).

• Finance (Northern Ireland) Order 1972 (S.I. 1972/1100 (N.I. 11)), Article 10.

• Finance Act 1973 (c. 51), section 46.

• Finance (Miscellaneous Provisions) (Northern Ireland) Order 1973 (S.I. 1973/1323 (N.I. 18)), Article 5.

• Theatres Trust Act 1976 (c. 27), the Schedule.

• Public Lending Right Act 1979 (c. 10).

• National Heritage Act 1983 (c. 47), sections 1 to 16 and Parts I and II of Schedule 1.

PART II INSTITUTIONS

• The Arts Council of Great Britain.

• The British Film Institute.

• The Corporation of the Hall of Arts and Sciences.

• The National Film and Television School.

• The National Theatre Board.

• The Science Museum.

• The South Bank Theatre Board.

• The Victoria and Albert Museum.

Article 10

SCHEDULE 2 CONSEQUENTIAL AMENDMENTS

1.—(1) Paragraph 17 of Schedule 4 to the Finance Act 1975(1) shall be amended as follows.

(2) In sub-paragraph (1), for “and the Secretary of State agrees” substitute “and the Ministers agree”.

(3) In sub-paragraph (3), for “the Secretary of State”, in the second place where it occurs, substitute “the Ministers”.

(4) In sub-paragraph (4), for “the Secretary of State”, wherever occurring, substitute “the Ministers”.

(5) In sub-paragraph (5), after “In this paragraph” insert ““the Ministers” means the Secretary of State and the Lord President of the Council and”.

2.—(1) The National Heritage Act 1980(2) shall be amended as follows.

(2) In sections 2(1), 7(1) and (2), 8(1), 9(5) and (6), 10(1), (2) and (3) and 12(2) and in paragraphs 5(2), 6 and 7(4) of Schedule 1, for “the Secretary of State”, wherever occurring, substitute “the Ministers”.

(3) In sections 4(3), 5(3), 9(1) and (3) and 16(1), (2)(e) and (5), for “the Secretary of State”, wherever occurring, substitute “either of the Ministers”.

(4) In sections 2(1), 9(5) and 10(1) for the words “him”, “he”, “his” and “has” substitute “them”, “they”, “their” and “have” respectively.

(5) In section 9(2), for “the Secretary of State”, in the first place where it occurs, substitute “either Minister”.

(6) In section 9(4), for “the Secretary of State”, substitute—

(a) in the first place where it occurs, “Either of the Ministers”;

(b) in the second place where it occurs, “the Ministers”; and

(c) in the third place where it occurs, “the Minister”.

(7) In section 14(1), for “the Secretary of State” substitute “the Ministers or either of them”.

(8) In section 16—

(a) in subsections (3) and (4), for “The Secretary of State shall not” substitute “Neither of the Ministers shall”; and

(b) in subsection (4), for “the Secretary of State”, in the second place where it occurs, substitute “the Minister”.

(9) In section 18(2), at the end insert the following definition:—

““the Ministers” means the Secretary of State and the Lord President of the Council.”

(1)

paragraph 17 was amended by section 124 of the Finance Act 1976 (c. 40) and by S.I. 1981/207, Sch. 2.

(2)

the Act was amended by S.I. 1981/207, Sch. 2.