The Statistics of Trade Act 1947 (Amendment of Schedule) Order 1990

Statutory Instruments

1990 No. 2597

STATISTICS OF TRADE

The Statistics of Trade Act 1947 (Amendment of Schedule) Order 1990

Made

19th December 1990

Coming into force

20th December 1990

At the Court at Buckingham Palace, the 19th day of December 1990

Present

The Queen’s Most Excellent Majesty in Council

Whereas by section 5 of the Statistics of Trade Act 1947(1) Her Majesty may by Order in Council amend the Schedule to the said Act by adding to the matters specified therein any other matter:

And whereas a draft of this Order has been laid before Parliament in accordance with the provisions of section 5(3) of the said Act and an address has been presented to Her Majesty by each House of Parliament praying that the Order be made:

Now, therefore, Her Majesty, in pursuance of the powers conferred upon Her by section 5 of the said Act, is pleased by and with the advice of Her Privy Council, to order and it is hereby ordered as follows:—

1.  The Schedule to the Statistics of Trade Act 1947 (which specifies the matters about which a person may be required to furnish estimates or returns under the Act)(2) shall be amended so far as it applies, under section 1 of the Act, to inquiries by competent authorities(3), by adding to the matters specified therein the matters specified in the Schedule to this Order.

2.  This Order may be cited as the Statistics of Trade Act 1947 (Amendment of Schedule) Order 1990 and shall come into force on the day after it is made.

G. I. de Deney

Clerk of the Privy Council

Article 1

SCHEDULE ADDITIONAL MATTERS ABOUT WHICH PERSONS MAY BE REQUIRED TO FURNISH ESTIMATES OR RETURNS UNDER THE STATISTICS OF TRADE ACT 1947 IN RESPECT OF INQUIRIES UNDER SECTION 1 OF THE ACT

Income (including rents, interest and investment income) received or receivable by the undertaking; dividends and interest paid or payable; profits; losses; taxes paid or chargeable on income or gains; services acquired or used.

Explanatory Note

(This note is not part of the Order)

This Order amends the Schedule to the Statistics of Trade Act 1947, which contains the matters about which persons carrying on undertakings may be required to furnish estimates or returns under the Act, by adding the matters referred to in the Schedule to this Order.

(1)

1947 c. 39.

(2)

The Schedule was amended by S.I. 1963/1329 and 1987/669.

(3)

See section 17(3) of the Act and S.I. 1971/719 (article 3(2)), amended by S.I. 1989/992 (article 6(3)).