Public Bodies Act 2011

Section 1

SCHEDULE 1 Power to abolish: bodies and offices

• Administrative Justice and Tribunals Council.

• Advisory Committee on Hazardous Substances (established under section 140(5) of the Environmental Protection Act 1990).

• Advisory Committee on Pesticides and Advisory Committee on Pesticides for Northern Ireland (bodies established under section 16(7) of the Food and Environment Protection Act 1985).

• Agricultural dwelling-house advisory committees for areas in England.

• Agricultural Wages Board for England and Wales.

• Agricultural wages committees for areas in England.

• Aircraft and Shipbuilding Industries Arbitration Tribunal.

• British Shipbuilders and any subsidiary of British Shipbuilders (within the meaning of section 1159 of the Companies Act 2006).

• BRB (Residuary) Limited.

• Child Maintenance and Enforcement Commission.

• Commission for Rural Communities.

• Committee on Agricultural Valuation (the body established under section 92 of the Agricultural Holdings Act 1986).

• Competition Service.

• Courts boards.

• Crown Court Rule Committee.

• Disability Living Allowance Advisory Board.

• Disabled Persons Transport Advisory Committee.

• Environment Protection Advisory Committees established under section 12 of the Environment Act 1995 other than the one established pursuant to subsection (6) of that section (Wales).

• Food from Britain.

• Home Grown Timber Advisory Committee.

• Inland Waterways Advisory Council.

• Her Majesty’s Inspectorate of Court Administration.

• Library Advisory Council for England.

• Magistrates’ Courts Rule Committee (established under section 144 of the Magistrates’ Courts Act 1980).

• National Consumer Council (“Consumer Focus”).

• National Endowment for Science, Technology and the Arts.

• Plant Varieties and Seeds Tribunal.

• Public Guardian Board.

• Railway Heritage Committee.

• Regional and local fisheries advisory committees established under section 13 of the Environment Act 1995 other than the one established pursuant to subsection (5) of that section (Wales).

• Registrar of Public Lending Right.

• Sports Grounds Safety Authority.

• Valuation Tribunal Service.

• Victims’ Advisory Panel.

NOTE

1 For the purposes of making a transfer scheme under section 23 in relation to the abolition of British Shipbuilders—

(a) a subsidiary of British Shipbuilders dissolved before the coming into force of the scheme is to be treated as not having been dissolved, and

(b) the scheme may make provision for the transfer of liabilities as if the subsidiary had not been dissolved.