Public Bodies Bill [HL]

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Session 2010 - 11
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Public Bodies Bill [HL]

Public Bodies Bill [HL]
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Commencement
This Act comes into force at the end of the period of two months beginning
with the day on which it is passed.
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Short title
This Act may be cited as the Public Bodies Act 2011.
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Public Bodies Bill [HL]
Schedule 1 — Power to abolish: bodies and offices

Schedules
Schedule 1
Section 1

Power to abolish: bodies and offices

Administrative Justice and Tribunals Council.

Advisory Committee on Hazardous Substances (established under section
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140(5) of the Environmental Protection Act 1990).

Advisory Committee on Pesticides and Advisory Committee on Pesticides
for Northern Ireland (bodies established under section 16(7) of the Food and
Environment Protection Act 1985).

Agricultural dwelling-house advisory committees.
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Agricultural Wages Board for England and Wales.

Agricultural wages committees.

Aircraft and Shipbuilding Industries Arbitration Tribunal.

British Shipbuilders and any subsidiary of British Shipbuilders (within the
meaning of section 1159 of the Companies Act 2006).
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BRB (Residuary) Limited.

Chief Coroner, Deputy Chief Coroners, Medical Advisers to the Chief
Coroner and Deputy Medical Advisers to the Chief Coroner.

Child Maintenance and Enforcement Commission.

Commission for Rural Communities.
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Committee on Agricultural Valuation (the body established under section 92
of the Agricultural Holdings Act 1986).

Competition Service.

Courts boards.

Crown Court Rule Committee.
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Disability Living Allowance Advisory Board.

Disabled Persons Transport Advisory Committee.

Environment Protection Advisory Committees established under section 12
of the Environment Act 1995.

Food from Britain.
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Football Licensing Authority.

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Home Grown Timber Advisory Committee.

Inland Waterways Advisory Council.

Her Majesty’s Inspectorate of Court Administration.

Library Advisory Council for England.

Magistrates’ Courts Rule Committee (established under section 144 of the
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Magistrates’ Courts Act 1980).

National Consumer Council (“Consumer Focus”).

National Endowment for Science, Technology and the Arts.

Public Guardian Board.

Railway Heritage Committee.
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Regional advisory committees established under section 37(1)(b) of the
Forestry Act 1967.

Regional and local fisheries advisory committees established under section
13 of the Environment Act 1995.

Regional development agency for the East Midlands.
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Regional development agency for the Eastern Region.

Regional development agency for the North East.

Regional development agency for the North West.

Regional development agency for the South East.

Regional development agency for the South West.
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Regional development agency for the West Midlands.

Regional development agency for Yorkshire and the Humber.

Security Industry Authority.

Valuation Tribunal Service.

Victims’ Advisory Panel.
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Youth Justice Board for England and Wales.

NOTES
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For the purposes of making a transfer scheme under section 23 in relation to
the abolition of British Shipbuilders—
(a)
a subsidiary of British Shipbuilders dissolved before the coming into
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force of the scheme is to be treated as not having been dissolved, and
(b)
the scheme may make provision for the transfer of liabilities as if the
subsidiary had not been dissolved.
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For the purposes of the abolition of a regional development agency, the
power in section 1(2) includes power to transfer a function of the agency to
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any body corporate.

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Schedule 3 — Power to modify constitutional arrangements: bodies and offices
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In this Schedule, references to a regional development agency are to a
development agency established under the Regional Development Agencies
Act 1998.
Schedule 2
Section 2

Power to merge: bodies and offices
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Group 1

Central Arbitration Committee.

Certification Officer.
Group 2

Gambling Commission.
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National Lottery Commission.
Group 3

Pensions Ombudsman.

Ombudsman for the Board of the Pension Protection Fund.
Group 4
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Director of Public Prosecutions.

Director of Revenue and Customs Prosecutions.
Schedule 3
Section 3

Power to modify constitutional arrangements: bodies and offices

British Hallmarking Council.
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Broads Authority.

Commission for Equality and Human Rights.

English Tourist Board.

Internal drainage boards.

Joint Nature Conservation Committee.
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National Park authorities.

Passengers’ Council (“Passenger Focus”).

Theatres Trust.