ABRO Trading Fund Order 2002

JurisdictionUK Non-devolved
CitationSI 2002/719

2002 No. 719

GOVERNMENT TRADING FUNDS

The ABRO Trading Fund Order 2002

Made 14th March 2002

Coming into force 1st April 2002

Whereas:

It appears to the Secretary of State for Defence (“the Secretary of State”) that:—

(a) those operations of the Ministry of Defence which are referred to in Article 2 of, and Schedule 1 to, this Order are suitable to be financed by means of a fund established under the Government Trading Funds Act 19731(“the 1973 Act”) and, in particular, to be so managed that the revenue of the fund would consist principally of receipts in respect of goods or services provided in the course of the operations in question, and

(b) the financing of the operations in question by means of a trading fund would be in the interests of the improved efficiency and effectiveness of the management of those operations;

The Secretary of State has, in accordance with section 2 of the 1973 Act and with the concurrence of the Treasury, determined what Crown assets and liabilities are properly attributable to the operations in question and are suitable to be appropriated to the fund;

In accordance with section 6(2) of the 1973 Act, a draft of this Order has been laid before the House of Commons and has been approved by a resolution of that House;

Now, therefore, the Secretary of State in exercise of the powers conferred on him by sections 1, 2(1) and (7), 2AA(1), 2A(1), 2C(1) and 6(1) of the 1973 Act, with the concurrence of the Treasury, hereby makes the following Order:—

S-1 Citation and commencement

Citation and commencement

1. This Order may be cited as the ABRO Trading Fund Order 2002 and shall come into force on 1st April 2002.

S-2 Establishment of the fund

Establishment of the fund

2. As from 1st April 2002, for all the operations of the Ministry of Defence known as ABRO, which operations are more particularly described in Schedule 1 to this Order, there shall be established a trading fund to be known as the ABRO Trading Fund (hereinafter referred to as “the fund”).

S-3 Source of Loans

Source of Loans

3. The Secretary of State for Defence is hereby designated as the source of issues to the fund by way of loan.

S-4 Assets, liabilities, reserves and public dividend capital

Assets, liabilities, reserves and public dividend capital

4.—(1) The Crown assets and liabilities set out in Schedule 2 to this Order shall be appropriated as assets and liabilities of the fund.

(2) Eleven per cent of the amount by which the values of the assets exceed the amounts of the liabilities shall be treated as reserves in the accounts of the fund and shall be maintained as revaluation reserves.

(3) Fifty per cent of the...

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