The Public Interest Disclosure (Prescribed Persons) (Amendment) Order 2016

Citation and Commencement

1.  This Order may be cited as the Public Interest Disclosure (Prescribed Persons) (Amendment) Order 2016 and comes into force on 1st November 2016.

Amendments to the Public Interest Disclosure (Prescribed Persons) Order 2014

2.  In the Schedule to the Public Interest Disclosure (Prescribed Persons) Order 2014(1)—

(a) in the entry relating to The Bank of England, for the words in the second column substitute—

“Matters relating to—

(a) the functioning of clearing houses (including central-counterparties);

(b) inter-bank payment systems;

(c) securities settlement systems;

(d) the treatment, holding and issuing of banknotes by the authorised banks (and their agents) under Part 6 of the Banking Act 2009(2);

(e) the custody, distribution and processing of Bank of England banknotes under the Bank of England’s Note Circulation Scheme.”;

(b) in the entry relating to the Food Standards Agency, in the second column, at the end insert “in England, Wales or Northern Ireland.”;

(c) in the entry relating to the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, for the words in the first column substitute “Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy”; and

(d) at the appropriate places, insert the entries set out in the Schedule to this Order.

Margot James

Minister for Small Business, Consumers and Corporate Responsibility

Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy

5th October 2016