The Public Records (Designation of Bodies) Order 2003

Statutory Instruments

2003 No. 438

PUBLIC RECORDS, ENGLAND AND WALES

The Public Records (Designation of Bodies) Order 2003

Made

27th February 2003

Laid before Parliament

11th March 2003

Coming into force

1st April 2003

At the Court at Buckingham Palace, the 27th day of February 2003

Present,

The Queen’s Most Excellent Majesty in Council

Her Majesty, in exercise of the power conferred on Her by paragraph 3A of Schedule 1 to the Public Records Act 1958(1), is pleased, by and with the advice of Her Privy Council, to order, and it is ordered, as follows:

Citation and commencement

1.  This Order may be cited as the Public Records (Designation of Bodies) Order 2003 and shall come into force on 1st April 2003.

Amendments to Schedule 1 to the Public Records Act 1958

2.  In Schedule 1 to the Public Records Act 1958 (definition of public records), in Part II of the Table at the end of paragraph 3, at the appropriate alphabetical place insert—

• “British Council.”

• “Disability Rights Commission.”

• “The Simpler Trade Procedures Board.”.

A. K. Galloway

Clerk of the Privy Council

Explanatory Note

(This note is not part of the Order)

This Order amends Part II of the Table at the end of paragraph 3 of Schedule 1 to the Public Records Act 1958 by adding entries for—

(i) the British Council;

(ii) the Disability Rights Commission; and

(iii) The Simpler Trade Procedures Board.

The administrative and departmental records of each of these bodies thereby become public records.

(1)

1958 c. 51; paragraph 3A was inserted by paragraph 4 of Part I of Schedule 5 to the Freedom of Information Act 2000 (c. 36).