The Public Bodies Act 2011 (Commencement No. 2) Order 2012

Statutory Instruments

2012 No. 1662 (C. 63)

Public Bodies

The Public Bodies Act 2011 (Commencement No. 2) Order 2012

Made

27th June 2012

The Secretary of State makes the following Order in exercise of the powers conferred by section 38(3) of the Public Bodies Act 2011(1).

Citation

1.  This Order may be cited as the Public Bodies Act 2011 (Commencement No. 2) Order 2012.

Commencement

2.—(1) Section 30(4) to (8) of the Public Bodies Act 2011 comes into force on 1st July 2012.

(2) The following provisions of the Public Bodies Act 2011 come into force at 0.02 a.m. on 1st July 2012—

(a) section 30(1) and (2);

(b) section 30(3) and Schedule 6, except in so far as they relate to the repeals of sections 14, 15 and 17 of the Regional Development Agencies Act 1998(2) and section 36(3)(c) of the London Olympic Games and Paralympic Games Act 2006(3).

Mark Prisk

Minister of State for Business and Enterprise

Department for Business, Innovation and Skills

27th June 2012

EXPLANATORY NOTE

(This note is not part of the Order)

Article 2 of this Order brings into force, on 1st July 2012, section 30(1) to (8) of, and Schedule 6 (Repeals) to, the Public Bodies Act 2011 (‘the Act’), apart from certain repeals. Section 30(1) abolishes the regional development agencies, apart from the London Development Agency, which is abolished by the Localism Act 2011 (section 30(2)). Most of the provisions brought into force by this Order come into force at the beginning of 1st July 2012 but the commencement of section 30(1) and (2) (and related repeals) is delayed until 0.02 a.m. on 1st July 2012 so that the regional development agencies are abolished after the transfers of their remaining assets and liabilities to the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills. These transfers will be made by transfer schemes made under section 30 of the Public Bodies Act 2011 and will take effect at 0.01 a.m. on 1st July 2012. The Secretary of State may make orders to facilitate or secure that activities begun by a regional development agency may be continued or completed by another person (section 30(4) to (6)) and to make other consequential, supplementary, incidental or transitional provision or saving (section 30(7)).

NOTE AS TO EARLIER COMMENCEMENT ORDER

(This note is not part of the Order)

The following provisions of the Act have been brought into force by a commencement order made before the date of this Order:

Provision	Date of Commencement	S.I. No.
Section 30(9) to (11)	16th December 2011	2011/3043 (C.114)

(1)

2011 c.24.

(2)

1998 c.45; there are amendments to sections 14, 15 and 17 which are not relevant to this Order.

(3)

2006 c.12.