Statutory Instruments
2003 No. 105
GOVERNMENT TRADING FUNDS
The ABRO Trading Fund (Amendment) Order 2003
Made
23rd January 2003
Laid before Parliament
24th January 2003
Coming into force
14th February 2003
The Secretary of State in exercise of the powers conferred on him by sections 1, 2AA(1), 2A(1), and 6(1) of the Government Trading Funds Act 1973( 1 ), with the concurrence of the Treasury, hereby makes the following Order:
Citation and commencement
1. This Order which amends the ABRO Trading FundOrder 2002( 2 ) (“the Principal Order”) may be cited as the ABRO Trading Fund (Amendment) Order 2003 and shall come into force on 14 th February 2003.
Amendment to the Principal Order
2. In article 4 (assets, liabilities, reserves and public dividend capital) of the Principal Order for paragraphs (2) and (3) substitute the following paragraphs:—
“ (2) £12,900,000 of the amount by which the values of the assets of the fund exceed the amounts of the liabilities shall be treated as the revaluation reserve and a revaluation reserve shall be maintained.
(3) Fifty per cent of the amount by which the values of the assets exceeds the amounts of the liabilities, less the amount to be treated as the revaluation reserve, shall be treated as the public dividend capital of the fund. ”
Geoffrey Hoon
Secretary of State for Defence
22nd January 2003
We concur
Philip Woolas
Nick Ainger
Two of the Lords Commissioners of Her Majesty’s Treasury
23rd January 2003
1973 c. 63 , as amended by the Government Trading Act 1990 (c. 30) . The 1973 Act, as so amended, is set out in Schedule 1 to the 1990 Act. The 1973 Act was further amended by section 119 of the Finance Act 1991 (c. 31) , Schedule 22 to the Finance Act 1993 (c. 34) and by section 108 of the Finance Act 2001.
S.I. 2002/719