Royal Mint Trading Fund (Extension and Variation) Order 2002
| Jurisdiction | UK Non-devolved |
| Citation | SI 2002/831 |
| Year | 2002 |
2002 No. 831
GOVERNMENT TRADING FUNDS
The Royal Mint Trading Fund (Extension and Variation) Order 2002
Made 26th March 2002
Coming into force 1st April 2002
Whereas:
the Royal Mint Trading Fund (“the Fund”) was established under the Government Trading Funds Act 19731(“the 1973 Act”) by the Royal Mint Trading Fund Order 19752(“the 1975 Order”) with effect from 1st April 1975;
it appears to the Chancellor of the Exchequer that:—
(a) additional operations of the Royal Mint, consisting of the manufacture and supply of gifts and collectible items other than coins and any operation incidental or conducive to such manufacture or supply, are suitable to be financed by means of a trading fund 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;
(b) it would be in the interests of the improved efficiency and effectiveness of the management of those operations to finance them by means of a trading fund; and
(c) the operations of the Fund should be extended to those operations;
the Chancellor of the Exchequer has in accordance with section 2(1) of the 1973 Act determined what Crown assets and liabilities are properly attributable to those additional operations and are suitable to be appropriated to the Fund; and
in accordance with section 6(2) of the 1973 Act, a draft of this Order extending the operations of the Fund has been laid before the House of Commons and has been approved by a resolution of that House;
Now therefore, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, in exercise of the powers conferred upon him by sections 1(1), 2(1) and 6(1) of the 1973 Act and of all other powers enabling him in that behalf, hereby makes the following Order:—
Citation and commencement
1. This Order may be cited as the Royal Mint Trading Fund (Extension and Variation) Order 2002 and shall come into force on 1st April 2002.
Extension of the Fund
2. As from 1st April 2002, the operations of the Fund shall be extended to the operations of the Royal Mint consisting of the manufacture and supply of gifts and collectible items, other than coins, and any operation incidental or conducive to such manufacture or supply.
Appropriation of assets and liabilities to the fund
3. Crown assets consisting of—
(a) part of...
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