The Films Co-Production Agreements (Amendment) Order 2011

Statutory Instruments

2011 No. 236

Cinema And Films

The Films Co-Production Agreements (Amendment) Order 2011

Made

9th February 2011

Coming into force

16th February 2011

At the Court at Buckingham Palace, the 9th day of February 2011

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 2011 and shall come into force on 16th February 2011.

Amendment to the Films Co-Production Agreements Order 1985

2.  The Films Co-Production Agreements Order 1985(2) shall be amended as follows—

(a) in article 2, after “and” add “the international organisations, authorities or”,

(b) by substituting for the schedule the following–

“SCHEDULE

Country/International Organisation/Authority	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
India	5th December 2005	Cm.7423
Israel	3rd November 2010	Cm. 7994
Jamaica Morocco	23rd April 2007 12th October 2009	Cm. 7168 Cm. 7670
New Zealand	14th April 1993	Cm. 2638
Palestine Liberation Organisation for the benefit of the Palestinian Authority	3rd November 2010	Cm. 7995
South Africa	24th May 2006	Cm. 6866”

Revocation

3.  The Films Co-Production Agreements (Amendment) Order 2009(3) is revoked.

Judith Simpson

Clerk of the Privy Council

EXPLANATORY NOTE

(This note is not part of the Order)

Paragraph 4(5) of Schedule 1 to the Films Act 1985 provides that Her Majesty may by Order in Council provide for films to be treated as British films for the purposes of that schedule if they are made in accordance with the terms of any agreement between Her Majesty’s Government in the United Kingdom and any other government, international organisation or authority. This Order amends the Films Co-Production Agreements Order 1985 (“the principal Order”) so that, in addition to agreements between the Government of the United Kingdom and the Governments of other countries, the principal Order refers to agreements between the Government of the United Kingdom and international organisations or authorities.

This Order also extends the list of agreements scheduled to the principal Order to include an agreement with Israel (Cm. 7994) and an agreement with the Palestine Liberation Organisation for the benefit of the Palestinian Authority (Cm. 7995), both of 3rd November 2010. The agreements with Israel and the Palestine Liberation Organisation for the benefit of the Palestinian Authority were laid before Parliament on 22nd December 2010 and are 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. 2009/3009.