Furniture Development Council (Dissolution) Order 1981
| Jurisdiction | UK Non-devolved |
| Citation | SI 1981/1142 |
| Year | 1981 |
1981 No. 1142
INDUSTRIAL ORGANISATION AND DEVELOPMENT
The Furniture Development Council (Dissolution) Order 198131stJuly 1981
1stDecember 1981
Whereas the Secretary of State has consulted the development council known as the Furniture Development Council (hereinafter called "the Council") and the organisations appearing to him to be representative of substantial numbers of persons carrying on business in the furniture manufacturing industries and the organisations representative of persons employed in those industries appearing to him to be appropriate:
And whereas a draft of this Order has been approved by a resolution of each House of Parliament:
Now, therefore, the Secretary of State, in exercise of the powers conferred by section 8 of the Industrial Organisation and Development Act 1947(a) and now vested in him(b) and all other powers in that behalf enabling him, hereby orders as follows:—
Citation and commencement
1. This Order may be cited as the Furniture Development Council (Dissolution) Order 1981 and shall come into operation on 1st December 1981.
Modification and abolition of statutory levy
2. The Furniture Industry Development Council Order 1948(c) (hereinafter referred to as "the principal Order") shall have effect as if:—
(a) in paragraph (1) of Article 6 thereof after the words "each subsequent year" there were inserted the words "up to and including the year 1982"; and
(b) in the proviso to that paragraph, in its application to the year 1982, for the amount "£3,000" there were substituted the amount "£200,000".
Winding up of the Furniture Development Council
3.—(1) On 31st December 1982 (hereinafter referred to as "the dissolution date"), the property, rights and liabilities which immediately before that date were property, rights and liabilities of the Council shall, by virtue of this Article, vest in the Secretary of State for Industry and the Council shall be dissolved.
(2) Any legal proceedings to which the Council are a party immediately before the dissolution of the Council may be continued after the dissolution by or in relation to the Secretary of State.
(a) 1947 c. 40.
(b) S.I. 1970/1537.
(c) S.I. 1948/2774, to which the only relevant amending instrument is S.I. 1967/1130.
(3) A requirement imposed by the Council under Article 5 or 6(5) of the principal Order which remains unfulfilled on the dissolution date shall, as from that date, have effect as if any reference to the Council or any officer thereof in...
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