The Transfer of Functions (Education and Employment) Order 1995

Employment statistics

9.—(1) In this article “the employment (statistics) functions” means the functions relating to employment statistics and labour market surveys which were entrusted to the Secretary of State for Employment immediately before July 1995 and which are, immediately before the making of this Order, entrusted to the Chancellor of the Exchequer.

(2) Any contract, offer, warrant or other thing which—

(a) has been, or has effect as if, made, issued or done by or in relation to the Secretary of State for Employment in connection with the employment (statistics) functions, and

(b) is in force at the coming into force of this Order,

shall have effect as if made, issued or done by or in relation to the Chancellor of the Exchequer.

(3) Any instrument made before the coming into force of this Order shall have effect, so far as may be necessary for the purposes of or in consequence of the entrusting to the Chancellor of the Exchequer of the employment (statistics) functions, as if any reference to the Secretary of State for Employment, to the Department of Employment or to an officer of the Secretary of State for Employment (including any reference which is to be construed as such a reference) were a reference to the Chancellor of the Exchequer, to the Central Statistical Office of the Chancellor of the Exchequer or, as the case may be, to an officer of the Chancellor of the Exchequer.

(4) The Secretary of State’s function of disclosing information obtained under the Statistics of Trade Act 1947(1) in reliance upon section 4 of the Employment and Training Act 1973(2) (obtaining and disclosure of information) shall be exercisable by the Secretary of State and the Chancellor of the Exchequer concurrently.

(5) Any notice issued by or for the Secretary of State under section 4(3A) of the Employment and Training Act 1973 before the coming into force of this Order shall be construed as if any requirement to obtain the consent of the Secretary of State for Employment were a requirement to obtain the consent of the Chancellor of the Exchequer.

(1)

1947 c. 39.

(2)

1973 c. 50: relevant amendments were made by the Employment Act 1989 (c. 38), Sched. 6, para. 9.