The Transfer of Functions (Office of Her Majesty’s Paymaster General) Order 2006

Statutory Instruments

2006 No. 607

MINISTERS OF THE CROWN

The Transfer of Functions (Office of Her Majesty’s Paymaster General) Order 2006

Made

8th March 2006

Laid before Parliament

9th March 2006

Coming into force

3rd April 2006

At the Court at Buckingham Palace, the 8th day of March 2006

Present,

The Queen’s Most Excellent Majesty in Council

Her Majesty, in pursuance of section 1 of the Ministers of the Crown Act 1975(1), is pleased, by and with the advice of Her Privy Council, to order, and it is ordered, as follows:

Citation and commencement

1.—(1) This Order may be cited as the Transfer of Functions (Office of Her Majesty’s Paymaster General) Order 2006.

(2) This Order comes into force on 3^rd April 2006.

Interpretation

2.  In this Order—

(a) “the “Commissioners” means the Commissioners for Her Majesty’s Revenue and Customs;

(b) “instrument”, without prejudice to the generality of that expression, includes in particular Royal Charters, Royal Warrants, Orders in Council, Letters Patent, judgments, decrees, orders, rules, regulations, schemes, bye-laws, awards, contracts and other agreements, memoranda and articles of association, certificates, deeds and other documents.

Transfer of functions

3.  The following functions of the Paymaster General are transferred to the Commissioners—

(a) functions relating to the administration and oversight of the Office of Her Majesty’s Paymaster General;

(b) powers to authorise or require action by or in relation to that Office, for the purpose of discharging a duty or liability of the Paymaster General or for any other purpose.

Supplementary

4.—(1) This Order does not affect the validity of anything done (or having effect as if done) by or in relation to the Paymaster General before the coming into force of this Order.

(2) Anything (including legal proceedings) which, at the coming into force of this Order, is in the process of being done by or in relation to the Paymaster General may, so far as it relates to anything transferred by article 3, be continued by or in relation to the Commissioners.

(3) Anything done (or having effect as if done) by or in relation to the Paymaster General in connection with anything transferred by article 3 has effect, so far as necessary for continuing its effect after the coming into force of this Order, as if done by or in relation to the Commissioners.

(4) Documents or forms printed for use in connection with the functions transferred by article 3 may be used in connection with those functions even though they contain, or are to be read as containing, references to the Paymaster General or an officer of his; and for the purpose of the use of any such documents or forms after the coming into force of this Order, those references are to be read as references to the Commissioners or an officer of Revenue and Customs (as appropriate).

(5) Any enactment or instrument passed or made before the coming into force of this Order has effect, so far as is necessary for the purposes of or in consequence of article 3, as if references to (and references which are to be read as references to) the Paymaster General or an officer of his were or included references to the Commissioners or an officer of Revenue and Customs (as appropriate).

A. K. Galloway

Clerk of the Privy Council

Explanatory Note

(This note is not part of the Order)

This Order in Council, made under the Ministers of the Crown Act 1975, transfers to the Commissioners of Her Majesty’s Revenue and Customs the functions of the Paymaster General relating to the administration and oversight of the Office of Her Majesty’s Paymaster General and her powers to authorise or require action by or in relation to that Office, for the purpose of discharging a duty or liability of the Paymaster General or for any other purpose.

Nothing in this Order alters the functions of the National Assembly for Wales, the Scottish Ministers or the devolved authorities in Northern Ireland.

(1)

1975 c. 26; section 5A (application of the Act to the Commissioners) was inserted by the Commissioners for Revenue and Customs Act 2005 (c. 11).