The European Communities (Designation) (No. 5) Order 1992

Statutory Instruments

1992 No. 3197

EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES

The European Communities (Designation) (No. 5) Order 1992

Made

17th December 1992

Laid before Parliament

18th December 1992

Coming into force

8th January 1993

At the Court at Buckingham Palace, the 17th day of December 1992

Present,

The Queen’s Most Excellent Majesty in Council

Her Majesty, in exercise of the powers conferred on Her by section 2(2) of the European Communities Act 1972(1), is pleased, by and with the advice of Her Privy Council, to order, and it is hereby ordered, as follows:

Citation and commencement

1.  This Order may be cited as the European Communities (Designation) (No. 5) Order 1992 and shall come into force on 8th January 1993.

Designation

2.  For the purposes of section 2(2) of the European Communities Act 1972 the Friendly Societies Commission is hereby designated in relation to the authorisation of the carrying on by friendly societies of insurance business and the regulation of such business and its conduct and in relation to anything supplemental or incidental to such matters.

N. H. Nicholls

Clerk of the Privy Council

Explanatory Note

(This note is not part of the Order)

This is a further Order in the series of Orders designating the Ministers who, and the departments which, may exercise powers to make regulations conferred by section 2(2) of the European Communities Act 1972 and specifying the matters in relation to which these powers may be exercised. The Friendly Societies Commission established under section 1 of the Friendly Societies Act 1992 is designated in relation to the matters specified in the Order.

(1)

1972 c. 68.