Industrial Training Levy (Printing and Publishing) Order 1973
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1973 No. 1618
INDUSTRIAL TRAINING
The Industrial Training Levy (Printing and Publishing) Order 197321stSeptember 1973
2ndOctober 1973
26thOctober 1973
The Secretary of State after approving proposals submitted by the Printing and Publishing Industry Training Board for the imposition of a further levy on employers in the printing and publishing industry and in exercise of powers conferred by section 4 of the Industrial Training Act 1964(a) and now vested in him(b), and of all other powers enabling him in that behalf hereby makes the following Order:—
Title and commencement
1. This Order may be cited as the Industrial Training Levy (Printing and Publishing) Order 1973 and shall come into operation on 26th October 1973.
Interpretation
2.—(1) In this Order unless the context otherwise requires:—
(a) "agriculture" has the same meaning as in section 109(3) of the Agriculture Act 1947(c) or, in relation to Scotland, as in section 86(3) of the Agriculture (Scotland) Act 1948(d);
(b) "an appeal tribunal" means an industrial tribunal established under section 12 of the Industrial Training Act 1964;
(c) "assessment" means an assessment of an employer to the levy;
(d) "average number" in relation to the persons employed at or from a printing and publishing establishment of an employer means the number that is equal to the average (calculated to the lowest whole number) of the numbers of the persons employed on the relevant dates at or from the establishment by the employer;
(e) "the Board" means the Printing and Publishing Industry Training Board;
(f) "business" means any activities of industry or commerce;
(g) "charity" has the same meaning as in section 360 of the Income and Corporation Taxes Act 1970(e);
(a) 1964 c. 16.
(b) S.I. 1968/729 (1968 II, p. 2108).
(e) 1947 c. 48.
(d) 1948 c. 45.
(e) 1970 c. 10.
(h) "emoluments" means all emoluments assessable to income tax under Schedule E (other than pensions), being emoluments from which tax under that Schedule is deductible, whether or not tax in fact falls to be deducted from any particular payment thereof;
(i) "employer" means a person who is an employer in the printing and publishing industry at any time in the fifth levy period;
(j) "the fifth base period" means the period of twelve months that commenced on 6th April 1972;
(k) "the fifth levy period" means the period commencing with the day upon which this Order comes into operation and ending on 31st July 1974;
(l) "the industrial training order" means the Industrial Training (Printing and Publishing Board) Order 1968(a);
(m) "the levy" means the levy imposed by the Board in respect of the fifth levy period;
(n) "news agency" includes a photographic news agency and any other photographic agency;
(o) "notice" means a notice in writing;
(p) "printing and publishing establishment" means an establishment in Great Britain engaged in the fifth base period wholly or mainly in the printing and publishing industry for a total of twenty-seven or more weeks or, being an establishment that commenced to carry on business in the fifth base period, for a total number of weeks exceeding one half of the number of weeks in the part of the said period commencing with the day on which business was commenced and ending on the last day thereof;
(q) "printing and publishing industry" means any one or more of the activities which, subject to the provisions of paragraph 2 of Schedule 1 to the industrial training order, are specified in paragraph 1 of that Schedule as the activities of the printing and publishing industry;
(r) "the relevant dates" means 25th September 1972 and 26th March 1973;
(s) other expressions have the same meanings as in the industrial training order.
(2) In the case where a printing and publishing establishment is taken...
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