Property Services Agency and Crown Suppliers Act 1990

JurisdictionUK Non-devolved
Citation1990 c. 12
to which a Minister of the Crown (or in the case of copyright Her Majesty) is entitled or subject immediately before the day on which the scheme providing for the transfer comes into force; andwhich then subsisted for the purposes of or in connection with or are otherwise attributable (wholly or partly) to either of the Crown services known respectively as the Property Services Agency and the Crown Suppliers.(2) Without prejudice to the generality of paragraph (b) of subsection (1) above any property, rights or liabilities shall be taken to fall within that paragraph so far as relating to the Property Services Agency or, as the case may be, to the Crown Suppliers if the Secretary of State issues a certificate to that effect.(3) A scheme under this section may confer or impose such rights and liabilities as appear to the Secretary of State to be requisite for the purpose of converting into a contract between a transferee under the scheme and a Minister of the Crown any arrangement existing immediately before the coming into force of the scheme under which goods or services are being, or are to be, provided for that Minister as part of either of the services mentioned in subsection (1) (b) above.(4) In subsection (3) above references to a Minister of the Crown include references to a Northern Ireland department.(5) A scheme under this section may apply to property wherever situated and to property, rights and liabilities whether or not capable of being transferred or assigned by a Minister of the Crown or, as the case may be, by Her Majesty.(6) A scheme under this section shall come into force on such day as may be specified for that purpose in the scheme; and on that day the property, rights and liabilities to which the scheme applies shall be transferred and vest in accordance with the scheme.(7) A scheme under this section may contain such supplementary, incidental, consequential or transitional provisions as appear to the Secretary of State to be necessary or expedient; and the Schedule to this Act shall have effect in relation to any such scheme.(1) No scheme under section 1 above shall provide for the transfer of any rights or liabilities relating to a person’s employment.he shall not, on so ceasing, be treated for the purposes of any scheme under section 1 of the Superannuation Act 1972 as having retired on redundancy; andhis ceasing to be employed in that service shall not be regarded as an occasion of redundancy for the purpose of the agreed redundancy procedures applicable to persons employed in that service.(1) The person or persons to whom anything is transferred by a scheme under section 1 above may be or include one or more companies (“transferee companies”) formed or acquired by the Secretary of State for that purpose.subscribe for or otherwise acquire shares in or securities of a transferee company, or rights to subscribe for such shares or securities;from time to time by a direction given to a transferee company require it to issue to him such shares or securities as are specified in the direction;make loans to a transferee company on such terms and conditions as he may determine.(3) A direction under subsection (2) (b) above may require any shares to which it relates to be issued as fully or partly paid up.(4) The Secretary of State shall not subscribe for or otherwise acquire shares in or securities of a transferee company, or rights to subscribe for such shares or securities, unless all the company’s issued shares are to be held by or on behalf of the Crown and shall not at any time give a direction or make a loan to a transferee company under subsection (2) above unless all its issued shares are then held as aforesaid.(5) The Secretary of State shall not exercise any of the powers conferred by the foregoing provisions in this section or dispose of any shares in or securities of a transferee company

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