6.—(1) The Documentary Evidence Act 1868(1) shall apply to the transferred CSO–
(a)as if that Office were a government department included in the first column of the Schedule to that Act;
(b)as if the Chancellor or any person authorised to act on his behalf were mentioned in relation to that Office in the second column of that Schedule; and
(c)as if the regulations referred to in that Act included any document issued by that Office.
(2) In Schedule 2 to the Parliamentary Commissioner Act 1967(2) (bodies subject to investigation) there shall be inserted at the appropriate place–
“The Central Statistical Office of the Chancellor of the Exchequer.”
(3) The 1947 Act shall have effect after the coming into force of this Order–
(a)with the insertion in section 17(3) (competent authorities) of the words “the Chancellor of the Exchequer” immediately before the words “a Secretary of State”; and
(b)as if any other reference to the Secretary of State (including any reference which is to be construed as such a reference) were or included a reference to the Chancellor, as the context may require.
(4) Schedule 2 to this Order, which contains consequential amendments, shall have effect.
1967 c. 13; Schedule 2 was substituted by the Parliamentary and Health Service Commissioners Act 1987 (c. 39), Schedule 1.