The Films Co-Production Agreements (Amendment) Order 2007

Statutory Instruments

2007 No. 2125

CINEMAS AND FILMS

The Films Co-Production Agreements (Amendment) Order 2007

Made

25th July 2007

Coming into force

1st August 2007

At the Court at Buckingham Palace, the 25th day of July 2007

Present,

The Queen’s Most Excellent Majesty in Council

Her Majesty, in exercise of the powers conferred by paragraph 4(5) of Schedule 1 to the Films Act 1985(1), is pleased, by and with the advice of Her Privy Council, to make the following Order:

Citation and commencement

1.  This Order may be cited as the Films Co-Production Agreements (Amendment) Order 2007 and shall come into force on 1st August 2007.

Amendment to the Films Co-Production Agreements Order 1985

2.  The Films Co-Production Agreements Order 1985(2) shall be amended by substituting for the Schedule the following—

“SCHEDULE

Country	Date of Agreement	Command Paper
Australia	12th June 1990	Cm. 1758
Canada	12th September 1975	Cmnd. 6380
	9th July 1985	Cmnd. 9887
	5th July 1991	Cm. 1807
France	8th November 1994	Cm. 2992
Jamaica	23rd April 2007	Cm. 7168
New Zealand	14th April 1993	Cm. 2638
South Africa	24th May 2006	Cm. 6866”.

Revocation

3.  The Films Co-Production Agreements (Amendment) Order 2006(3) is revoked.

Judith Simpson

Clerk of the Privy Council

EXPLANATORY NOTE

(This note is not part of the Order)

The Films Co-Production Agreements Order 1985 (“the principal Order”) provides that films made in accordance with the agreements between the Government of the United Kingdom and the Governments of other countries listed in the Schedule are to be treated as British films for the purposes of Schedule 1 to the Films Act 1985. This Order extends the list of agreements scheduled to the principal Order to include an agreement with Jamaica of 23rd April 2007 (Cm. 7168) and removes from the list the agreements with Norway of 8th December 1982 (Cmnd. 9007) and with the Federal Republic of Germany of 30th January 1975 (Cmnd. 6155). The agreement with Jamaica was laid before Parliament on 9th July 2007 and is available from the Foreign and Commonwealth Office website: www.fco.gov.uk. This Order also revokes a previous Order which amended the Schedule to the principal Order and has now been superseded.

(1)

1985 c.21. Paragraph 4(5) was substituted by the Films (Definition of “British Film”) Order 2006 (S.I. 2006/643).

(2)

S.I. 1985/960, as amended by the Order mentioned in article 3.

(3)

S.I. 2006/1921.