2008 No. 2932
Industrial Organisation And Development

The Wool Textile Industry (Export Promotion Levy) (Revocation) Order 2008

Made
Coming into force
This Order is made in exercise of the powers conferred by section 9(7) of the Industrial Organisation and Development Act 19471, and now vested in the Secretary of State2.
The Secretary of State for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform has consulted the organisations appearing to the Secretary of State to be representative of substantial numbers of persons carrying on business in the wool textile industry and the organisations representative of persons employed in that industry appearing to the Secretary of State to be appropriate3.

A draft of this instrument has been approved by a resolution of each House of Parliament pursuant to section 9(9) of that Act.

Accordingly, the Secretary of State for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform makes the following Order:—

Citation, commencement, extent and cessation of charges1.

(1)

This Order may be cited as the Wool Textile Industry (Export Promotion Levy) (Revocation) Order 2008, shall extend to England and Wales and Scotland, and shall come into force on the day after it is made.

(2)

The provisions of Article 6 of the Wool Textile Industry (Export Promotion Levy) Order 19704 shall not impose on any person any charge in respect of any period after 30th September 2008.

Revocation2.

The Wool Textile Industry (Export Promotion Levy) Order 1970, the Wool Textile Industry (Export Promotion Levy) (Amendment) Order 19715 and the Wool Textile Industry (Export Promotion Levy) (Amendment) Order 19826 are revoked.
Shriti Vadera
Parliamentary Under Secretary of State for Business and Competitiveness
Department for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform
EXPLANATORY NOTE
(This note is not part of the Order)

This Order revokes the Wool Textile Industry (Export Promotion Levy) Order 1970, the Wool Textile Industry (Export Promotion Levy) (Amendment) Order 1971 and the Wool Textile Industry (Export Promotion Levy) (Amendment) Order 1982 in relation to England and Wales and Scotland. These Orders imposed or modified levies to finance export promotion by the National Wool Textile Export Corporation in connection with the wool textile industry. The Wool Textile Industry (Export Promotion Levy) Order 1970, as amended, ceases to have effect as respects the imposition of the levy for any period after 30th September 2008.

A full regulatory impact assessment of the effect that this instrument will have on the cost to business and the voluntary sector has been placed in the libraries of both Houses of Parliament. Copies are also available from the Department for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform, Bay UG 138, 1 Victoria Street, London, SW1H 0ET and at the following website: www.berr.gov.uk/consultations/ria/index.html.