2011 No. 236
Cinema And Films

The Films Co-Production Agreements (Amendment) Order 2011

Made
Coming into force

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 19851, is pleased, by and with the advice of Her Privy Council, to make the following Order:

Citation and commencement1.

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 19852.

The Films Co-Production Agreements Order 19852 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”

Revocation3.

The Films Co-Production Agreements (Amendment) Order 20093 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.