Other Instruments of interest
DRAFT PREVENTION OF TERRORISM ACT 2005 (CONTINUANCE
IN FORCE OF SECTIONS 1 TO 9) ORDER 2008
22. Further to the item in our 9th Report about
the draft Prevention of Terrorism Act 2005 (Continuance in force
of sections 1 to 9) Order 2008, the annual report by the Independent
Reviewer of the Prevention of Terrorism Act 2005, Lord Carlile
of Berriew QC, was published on 18 February. It is available on
the Home Office website[5].
The debate on the Order is set for Wednesday 27 February.
DRAFT CROWN AGENTS HOLDING AND REALISATION BOARD
(PRESCRIBED DAY) ORDER 2008
23. This Order will wind up the Crown Agents
Realisation Board as soon as its final year's accounts have been
cleared. The Board was originally set up to realise residual assets
overseas; this objective has now been largely achieved, returning
£38m to the Consolidated Fund by 31 December 2007.
LONDON SKILLS AND EMPLOYMENT BOARD (ESTABLISHMENT)
REGULATIONS 2008 (SI 2008/118)
LONDON SKILLS AND EMPLOYMENT BOARD (SPECIFIED FUNCTIONS)
ORDER 2008 (SI 2008/119)
24. The Department for Innovation, Universities
and Skills (DIUS) have laid these statutory instruments to provide
for the establishment of the London Skills and Employment Board
("the Board") chaired by the Mayor, its membership and
the appointment of its members other than the Mayor. The Board
is required to formulate a strategy, and keep it under review,
setting out how specified functions are to be carried out by the
Learning and Skills Council for England in Greater London. In
advance of the formal conferral of powers, the Board has in fact
been operating since the end of 2006; and the Mayor and the Board
have carried out consultation on a draft strategy for London between
October 2007 and January 2008.
5 http://security.homeoffice.gov.uk/news-publications/publication-search/general/report-control-orders-2008?view=Binary
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