The Parliamentary Commissioner (No. 2) Order 1999

Statutory Instruments

1999 No. 2028

PARLIAMENTARY COMMISSIONER

The Parliamentary Commissioner (No. 2) Order 1999

Made

21st July 1999

Laid before Parliament

29th July 1999

Coming into force

as to Articles 1, 2, 3 and 4

19th August 1999

as to Article 5

6th September 1999

At the Court at Buckingham Palace, the 21st day of July 1999

Present,

The Queen’s Most Excellent Majesty in Council

Her Majesty, in pursuance of section 4(2) and section 5(9) of the Parliamentary Commissioner Act 1967(1) (“the Act”), is pleased, by and with the advice of Her Privy Council, to order, and it is hereby ordered, as follows:—

1.  This Order may be cited as the Parliamentary Commissioner (No. 2) Order 1999 and shall come into force on 19th August 1999, save for Article 5 which shall come into force on 6th September 1999.

2.  Schedule 2 to the Act(2) shall be amended by the deletion of the entries “Countryside Commission”, “Monopolies and Mergers Commission”, “Office of Public Service”, “Rural Development Commission” and “Youth Justice Board” and by the insertion in the appropriate place in alphabetical order of the entries “Agricultural Wages Board for England and Wales”, “Alcohol Education and Research Council”, “Britain–Russia Centre and the British East–West Centre”, “British Association for Central and Eastern Europe”, “Cabinet Office”, “Competition Commission”, “Countryside Agency”, “Gaming Board for Great Britain”, “North of Scotland Region Electricity Consumers' Committee”, “Parliamentary Boundary Commission for Scotland” and “Youth Justice Board for England and Wales”.

3.  Schedule 2 shall be further amended by the substitution for Note 6 of the following Note—

“6.   The reference to the Cabinet Office does not include any of the Secretariats, the Joint Intelligence Organisation or the office of the Secretary of the Cabinet and Head of the Home Civil Service, but includes the executive agencies of the Cabinet Office and the office of any Minister whose expenses are defrayed out of moneys provided by Parliament for the service of the Cabinet Office, and the reference to the Treasury includes its subordinate departments and the office of any Minister whose expenses are defrayed out of moneys provided by Parliament for the service of the Treasury.”.

4.  Schedule 4 to the Act shall be amended by the substitution, for the entry “Child support appeal tribunals constituted under section 21 of the Child Support Act 1991”, of the entry “appeal tribunals constituted under Chapter I of Part I of the Social Security Act 1998”.

5.  Schedule 4 to the Act shall be further amended by the deletion of the entry “Medical appeal tribunals constituted under section 50 of that Act”.

A. K. Galloway

Clerk of the Privy Council

Explanatory Note

(This note is not part of the Order)

This Order deletes the Countryside Commission, Monopolies and Mergers Commission, Office of Public Service, Rural Development Commission and Youth Justice Board from the list of bodies which are subject to investigation by the Parliamentary Commissioner for Administration and adds the bodies referred to in Article 2 to the lists of departments and authorities in Schedule 2 to the Parliamentary Commissioner Act 1967 which are subject to investigation by the Parliamentary Commissioner for Administration.

This Order also amends Schedule 4 to the 1967 Act by substituting a reference to appeal tribunals constituted under Part 1 of Chapter I of the Social Security Act 1998 for the reference to child support appeal tribunals constituted under section 21 of the Child Support Act 1991 and by deleting the reference to medical appeal tribunals constituted under section 50 of the Social Security Administration Act 1992.

(1)

1967 c. 13.

(2)

Schedule 2 to the Parliamentary Commissioner Act 1967 was substituted by Schedule 1 to the Parliamentary and Health Service Commissioners Act 1987 (1987 c. 39) in consequence of section 1(2) of that Act.