Industrial Training (Distributive Board) Order 1968
| Jurisdiction | UK Non-devolved |
| Citation | SI 1968/1032 |
1968 No. 1032
INDUSTRIAL TRAINING
The Industrial Training (Distributive Board) Order 19681stJuly 1968
12thJuly 1968
25thJuly 1968
The Secretary of State after consultation with organisations and associations of organisations appearing to be representative respectively of substantial numbers of employers engaging in the activities hereinafter mentioned and of substantial numbers of persons employed in those activities and with the bodies established for the purpose of carrying on under national ownership industries in which the said activities are carried on to a substantial extent and in exercise of her powers under section 1 of, and paragraphs 1 and 7 of the Schedule to, the Industrial Training Act 1964(a) (hereinafter referred to as "the Act") and of all other powers enabling her in that behalf hereby makes the following Order:—
Citation, commencement and interpretation
1.—(1) This Order may be cited as the Industrial Training (Distributive Board) Order 1968 and shall come into operation on 25th July 1968.
(2) The Interpretation Act 1889(b) shall apply to the interpretation of this Order as it applies to the interpretation of an Act of Parliament.
Establishment of Industrial Training Board
2. An industrial training board to be known as the Distributive Industry Training Board (hereinafter referred to as "the Board") is hereby established to exercise in relation to the activities specified in Schedule 1 to this Order as the activities of the distributive industry the functions conferred on industrial training boards by the Act.
Membership and proceedings of the Board
3. The provisions of Schedule 2 to this Order shall have effect in relation to the Board.
Barbara Castle, First Secretary of State and Secretary of State for Employment and Productivity.
1st July 1968.
(a) 1964 c. 16.
(b) 1889 c. 63.
SCHEDULE 1
THE DISTRIBUTIVE INDUSTRY
1. Subject to the provisions of this Schedule, the activities of the distributive industry are the following activities in so far as they are carried out in Great Britain:—
(a) dealing in goods;
(b) operating a broadcast relay station;
(c) letting out on hire audio or video receiving apparatus;
(d) the installation, testing, inspection or repair of audio or video receiving apparatus or of transmission lines connected with such apparatus, being operations carried out in furtherance of an agreement made between a person carrying on the business of selling or hiring out such apparatus or of operating a broadcast relay station and a person to whom such apparatus has been sold or hired or who is a subscriber to the service provided from such a station;
(e) operating a trading stamp scheme;
(f) operating a business of check trading;
(g) any activities (other than those above mentioned), being—
(i) related activities incidental or ancillary to principal activities of the distributive industry; or
(ii) activities undertaken in the administration, control or direction of one or more establishments, being establishments engaged wholly or mainly in principal activities of that industry, in related activities incidental or ancillary thereto, or in the administration, control or direction of one or more other establishments engaged in such principal or related activities;
and carried out, in either case, by the employer engaged in those principal activities or, where that employer is a company, by the company or by an associated company of the company;
(h) any activities of industry or commerce (other than distributive activities) carried out at or from an establishment mainly engaged—
(i) in distributive activities; or
(ii) in distributive activities and in activities described in the Appendix to this Schedule, but to a greater extent in distributive activities than in activities described in that Appendix in relation to any one industry.
2. Notwithstanding anything contained in this Schedule, there shall not be included in the activities of the distributive industry:—
(a) the activities of any establishment engaged—
(i) mainly in activities not being distributive activities or activities described in the Appendix to this Schedule; or
(ii) to a less extent in distributive activities than in activities described in that Appendix in relation to any one industry;
(b) the activities of any establishment engaged wholly or mainly in related activities, being activities—
(i) incidental or ancillary to the activities of one or more establishments (in this sub-paragraph hereafter referred to as "the principal establishment") engaged wholly or mainly in any activities not being principal activities of the distributive industry; and
(ii) carried out by the employer carrying on the principal establishment or, where that employer is a company, by the company or by an associated company of the company;
(c) the activities of any establishment engaged wholly or mainly in—
(i) any activities of a kind specified in an entry (not being item No. 21) in the second column of the next following Table (being activities undertaken in relation to all or any of the goods specified in the corresponding entry in the third column of that Table) or in two or more of such entries; or
(ii) any activities of a kind specified in item No. 21 in the second column of the said Table, being activities undertaken in relation to any goods comprised in one or two (but not more than two) of the categories specified in the corresponding entry in the third column thereof;
TABLE
Item No. Activity Relevant Goods
1. Dealing. Fleeces, textile fibres and tops
2. Dealing (not being selling Yarn
by retail)
3. Dealing. Iron, steel and tinplate
4. Dealing (not being selling by Building, plumbing, decorating
retail) with persons engaging heating, ventilating or
in the construction industry. air-conditioning materials or
equipment, architectural and
builders' ironmongery and
cloakroom fittings.
5. Dealing in the capacity of Ships.
agent or broker.
6. Dealing. Wood (not being charcoal, cork
or firewood) battenboard,
blockboard, chipboard, fibre
building board, flaxboard,
laminboard, plywood and veneer.
7. Dealing. Motor vehicles, trailers and tyres
for motor vehicles or trailers.
8. Dealing (not being selling by Components, replacements, spare
retail). parts and accessories (not being
tyres) for motor vehicles or
trailers.
9. Dealing. Transport service equipment.
10. Dealing. Agricultural and horticultural
machinery or equipment.
11. Dealing. Liquefied petroleum gas, aviation
fuel, motor spirit, kerosene,
white spirit, diesel fuel, gas
oil, lubricating oil and any
similar product.
12. Dealing, where the person Photographic materials or
carrying on the establishment equipment.
is engaged in the manufacture
of sensitive materials for
the purposes of photography
or of recording sound or
vision.
13. Dealing (not being selling by Any drug or medicine that is
by the user of a trade mark either—
specified in the third column (i) manufactured, for the user
hereof. of a trade mark in respect
of such drug or medicine or
of a class of such goods, by
another person in pursuance
of a contract so to do; or
(ii) imported into Great Britain
by such a user in a state in
which it is ready for sale
in the United Kingdom of
Great Britain and Northern
Ireland or in which, prior
to such sale, it requires no
further processing other
than final assembly or
packaging.
14. Dealing. Wood pulp.
15. Dealing (not being selling by Paper, paperboard and fibreboard.
retail).
16. Publishing. Any of the following publications
or any publications similar
thereto—
(i) books, booklets, calendars,
catalogues, diaries,
directories or timetables;
(ii) magazines,...To continue reading
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