1. These Regulations may be cited as the Individual Learning Accounts (Separate Employers under the Crown) Regulations 2000 and shall come into force on 21st August 2000.

2. —(1) For the purposes of section 200G of the Income and Corporation Taxes Act 1988, Crown servants mentioned in paragraphs (2) and (3) shall be treated as holding office or employment in accordance with those paragraphs.

(2) Any Crown servant who is in—

(a) employment under or for the purposes of a Government department,

(b) service as a member of staff of the Scottish Administration, or holds an office in that Administration which is not a ministerial office,

(c) service as a member of the staff of the National Assembly for Wales,

(d) employment under or for the purposes of a Northern Ireland department, or

(e) service as a member of staff of the Northern Ireland Assembly,

shall be treated as holding office or employment under the organisation concerned.

(3) Service as a member of—

(a) the Royal Navy and Royal Marines,

(b) the Military Forces of the Crown, or

(c) the Regular Air Force,

shall be treated as employment of the organisation concerned (and each of those organisations shall be treated as an entity for the purposes of these Regulations).