This order extends the operations of the HMSO Trading Fund. That fund was established under the Government Trading Funds Act 1973 to finance those operations of HMSO which were described in the Schedule to the HMSO Trading Fund Order 1980. This Order adds to those operations further operations of HMSO which have not hitherto been financed by means of a trading fund.

The additional operations now to be financed by the fund are the procurement and production of printing, the supply of stationery and office machinery and related services and the publication and sale of material in printed or other form for such bodies outside the United Kingdom as are of a like nature to those for which the HMSO Trading Fund already provides goods and services. The activities are currently being administered under Class XVIII Vote 4, Stationery and Printing: Payments to Her Majesty’s Stationery Office.

The Order provides for the additional assets (estimated at £130,000) and liabilities (estimated at £120,000) set out in a Schedule to the Order to be appropriated to the fund.