The ABRO Trading Fund Order 2002

Statutory Instruments

2002 No. 719

GOVERNMENT TRADING FUNDS

The ABRO Trading Fund Order 2002

Made

14th March 2002

Coming into force

1st April 2002

Whereas:

(1) It appears to the Secretary of State for Defence (“the Secretary of State”) that:—

(a) those operations of the Ministry of Defence which are referred to in Article 2 of, and Schedule 1 to, this Order are suitable to be financed by means of a fund established under the Government Trading Funds Act 1973(1) (“the 1973 Act”) and, in particular, to be so managed that the revenue of the fund would consist principally of receipts in respect of goods or services provided in the course of the operations in question, and

(b) the financing of the operations in question by means of a trading fund would be in the interests of the improved efficiency and effectiveness of the management of those operations;

(2) The Secretary of State has, in accordance with section 2 of the 1973 Act and with the concurrence of the Treasury, determined what Crown assets and liabilities are properly attributable to the operations in question and are suitable to be appropriated to the fund;

(3) In accordance with section 6(2) of the 1973 Act, a draft of this Order has been laid before the House of Commons and has been approved by a resolution of that House;

Now, therefore, the Secretary of State in exercise of the powers conferred on him by sections 1, 2(1) and (7), 2AA(1), 2A(1), 2C(1) and 6(1) of the 1973 Act, with the concurrence of the Treasury, hereby makes the following Order:—

(1)

1973 c. 63, as amended by the Government Trading Act 1990 (c. 30). The 1973 Act, as so amended, is set out in Schedule 1 to the 1990 Act. The 1973 Act was further amended by section 119 of the Finance Act 1991 (c. 31), Schedule 22 to the Finance Act 1993 (c. 34) and by section 108 of the Finance Act 2001 (c. 9).