Industrial Organisation and Development Act 1947

General E+W+S

12 Administrative expenses. E+W+S

Any administrative expenses incurred in the execution of this Act by any of the authorities named in subsection (2) of section one of this Act shall be defrayed out of moneys provided by Parliament.

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Textual Amendments

F1 S. 13 repealed by Industrial Expansion Act 1968 (c. 32), Sch. 4

14 Ascertainment of activities to be treated as comprised in an industry. E+W+S

(1) A development council order shall designate, in such manner as appears to the Board or Minister concerned to be requisite for preventing uncertainty, the activities that are to be treated as constituting the industry for which the development council is established (whether being such as are regarded for any other purpose as those of a single industry or such as are regarded for any other purpose as those of a group of industries or of a section or sections of an industry or industries).

(2) An order amending a development council order may provide that further activities, designated as aforesaid, are to be treated as included in the industry for which the council is established, or that activities, designated as aforesaid, which are for the time being so treated are no longer to be so treated.

(3) The preceding subsections shall apply also to an order under section nine of this Act and an order amending such an order, with the substitution of references to the industry in connection with which funds are to be made available under that section for references to the industry for which a development council is established and other requisite modifications.

(4) In accordance with the preceding provisions of this section, the expression “the industry,” where used in this Act in relation to a development council or to an order under section nine of this Act, shall be construed as references to the industry that is for the time being, in accordance with those provisions, that for which the council is established or in connection with which funds are to be made available, as the case may be.

15 Application to Northern Ireland. E+W+S

(1) This Act, or any enactment therein, may be extended to Northern Ireland by an order of His Majesty in Council made after the passing by each House of the Parliament of Northern Ireland of a resolution praying that this Act, or that enactment, as the case may be may, be so extended, but otherwise it shall not extend to Northern Ireland.

(2) Development council orders applying solely to Northern Ireland, or an order under section nine of this Act so applying, may be made by the Ministry of Commerce, the Ministry of Finance, or the Ministry of Agriculture, for Northern Ireland, and, notwithstanding anything in subsection (2) of section one of this Act, shall not be made otherwise, and references in this Act to the Board or Minister concerned, and in section nine of this Act to the authorities named in the said subsection (2), shall be construed accordingly in relation to such an order.

(3) A development council order, an order amending such an order or an order under section nine of this Act, being an order which extends to Northern Ireland or applies solely to Northern Ireland, shall not be made until a draft of the order has been approved by a resolution of each House of the Parliament of Northern Ireland, and subsection (6) of section one of this Act, and subsection (9) of section nine thereof, shall not apply to an order which applies solely to Northern Ireland.

(4) The prohibition imposed by subsection (2) of section five of this Act on the disclosure of returns and information furnished or obtained as therein mentioned shall, in so far as any such returns or information relate to business carried on in Northern Ireland, have effect subject to the following exception in addition to the exceptions specified in paragraphs (a) to (d) of the said subsection (2), namely that such returns or information may, in so far as they relate to such business, be disclosed to, or to an officer of, the Ministry of Commerce for Northern Ireland in connection with the execution or for the purposes of any enactment of the Parliament of Northern Ireland corresponding to the enactment mentioned in paragraph (d) of the said subsection (2).

Modifications etc. (not altering text)

C1 S. 15: references to Ministries and Ministers of Northern Ireland to be construed in accordance with Northern Ireland Constitution Act 1973 (c. 36), s. 40, Sch. 5 paras. 7, 8 and S.I. 1982/338 (N.I. 6), arts. 3, 7, 1982/846 (N.I. 11), arts. 4, 5: functions of Ministry of Commerce now exercisable by Department of Economic Development and functions of the Ministry of Finance now exercisable by Department of Finance and Personnel

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Textual Amendments

F2 S. 16 repealed by Statute Law Revision Act 1950 (c. 6), Sch. 1

17 Short title. E+W+S

(1) This Act may be cited as the Industrial Organisation and Development Act 1947.

(2) In this Act, except where the context otherwise requires, references to a development council order or to an order under section nine thereof shall, where such an order has been amended, be construed as references to the order as amended.