Science and Technology Act 1965
| Jurisdiction | UK Non-devolved |
F34. ... the Medical Research Council; andF34if Her Majesty is pleased to establish such a body, each of the two bodies respectively referred to in this Act as the Science Research Council and the Natural Environment Research Council; andany F28other body which is established for purposes connected with scientific research and consists of persons appointed by a Minister of the Crown and which is declared by Order in Council to be established as a Research Council for purposes of this Act.(2) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .(3) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .(4) No recommendation shall be made to Her Majesty to make an Order in Council declaring a body to be a Research Council under subsection (1) (c) above unless a draft of the Order, specifying the objects or principal objects of that body, has been laid before Parliament and approved by a resolution of each House of Parliament.(1) The F2Secretary of State may, out of moneys provided by Parliament, pay to any of the Research Councils such sums in respect of the expenses of the Council as he may with the consent of the Treasury determine, and so far as relates to the use and expenditure of sums so paid the Council shall act in accordance with such directions as may from time to time be given to it by the Secretary of State.(2) The provisions of Schedule 1 to this Act shall have effect with respect to the making of returns and reports by the Research Councils to the F2Secretary of State, with respect to the keeping and auditing of their accounts and with respect to related matters.(3) Land occupied in the United Kingdom by any of the Research Councils shall be deemed, for the purposes of any rate on property, to be property occupied by or on behalf of the Crown for public purposes.(4) F29The obligations of the Medical Research Council . . . under this section in relation to the F2Secretary of State shall be in place of any corresponding obligations imposed on F4the Council by its charter or otherwise . . .; and subject to the foregoing provisions of this subsection anything which under the charter of F4the Council is to be done by or to a committee of the Privy Council shall instead be done by or to the F2Secretary of State.(5) Nothing in this Act or in any other enactment relating to the general functions of any of the Research Councils shall be taken as restricting the activities of a Research Council to the United Kingdom or any part thereof, nor shall the expenses in respect of which payments may be made under subsection (1) above be restricted to expenses incurred in the United Kingdom; but F30, in the case of Research Councils other than . . . the Medical Research Council, the expenses of the CouncilF30the expenses of a Research Council in respect of which payments may be so made shall not include any expenses in so far as they may be incurred for objects falling outside the objects specified in relation to the Council F31in section 1(2) or (3) above or in the Order in Council declaring it to be a Research Council.(1) F33The activities of the Council for Scientific and Industrial Research shall be taken over between them by such of the Research Councils as are concerned with the matters in question or by other government departments, and accordingly the Council for Scientific and Industrial Research and the Department of Scientific and Industrial Research will be dissolved.(2) F33The activities of the National Institute for Research in Nuclear Science shall be taken over by the Science Research Council.(3) F33 The Natural Environment Research Council shall carry on the former activities of the National Oceanographic Council.(4) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . (5) The enactments mentioned in Schedule 2 to this Act shall have effect subject to the provisions set out in that Schedule (being provisions making minor or consequential amendments in connection with the operation of this and the foregoing sections) F32; and the provisions of Schedule 3 to this Act shall have effect for transitional purposes connected with this section.(6) Where any activities of a Research Council or government department in relation to scientific research are to be taken over from it (otherwise than under this section) by any Research Council or government department, then on the transfer accordingly of responsibility for those activities the F8Secretary of State may by order made by statutory instrument transfer or provide for transferring property, rights, liabilities or obligations held, acquired or incurred in connection with the carrying on of the activities previously by any Research Council or government department; and a Research Council shall comply with any directions of the F8Secretary of State requiring it to take over from, or transfer to, any Research Council or government department the responsibility for any activities in relation to scientific research.(7) On any such transfer of responsibility as is mentioned in subsection (6) above the F8Secretary of State may by order made by statutory instrument provide, so far as appears to him necessary or expedient for giving full effect to the transfer, for the repeal or amendment of any provision in any enactment affecting a Research Council or government department concerned, and make transitional, supplemental or incidental provision in connection with any such repeal or amendment; but the statutory instrument shall be subject to annulment in pursuance of a resolution of either House of Parliament.(8) The provisions of this section, except subsections (6) and (7) , shall not come into force until such day as Her Majesty may by Order in Council appoint, and different days may be appointed for different provisions or for different purposes of the same provision.
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