UK Act of Parliament
1979
United Kingdom
Crown Agents Act 1979
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Schedules
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The quorum of the Crown Agents and the arrangements relating...
The validity of any proceedings of the Crown Agents shall...
The Crown Agents may authorise any member or employee of...
The fixing of the common seal of the Crown Agents...
(1) A document purporting to be duly executed under the...
Subject to the following provisions of this Schedule, a person...
A person may at any time resign his office as...
Where a member becomes or ceases to be the chairman...
If the chairman or deputy chairman ceases to be a...
(1) If the Minister is satisfied that a member—
The Crown Agents shall pay to each of their members...
In this Schedule “the former Agents” means the persons who...
Every agreement to which the former Agents or any of...
(1) Every agreement, whether in writing or not, and every...
Without prejudice to the generality of paragraphs 2 and 3,...
Without prejudice to the generality of paragraphs 2 and 3,...
(1) If any question arises whether any particular item of...
The government of any colony . . . or of...
The trustees of any pension fund maintained by any authority...
Any body corporate for the time being approved by the...
The government of any other country or territory outside the...
Any department of the Government of the United Kingdom or...
Any organisation whose members consist of or include two or...
Any non-profit-making authority or body of an international character established...
Any public authority or public body established under the law...
Any organisation or body established for charitable purposes.
Any body corporate the whole of whose issued share capital...
Any body corporate for the time being approved by the...
Procuring movable property of any kind.
Accepting funds for investment of behalf of the principal and...
Making or receiving payments in accordance with standing or other...
Managing operations relating to the raising and servicing of loans....
Administering and managing the provision or utilisation of financial, technical...
Negotiating and making contracts for the assembly, installation, commissioning or...
Making arrangements for and in connection with the conveyance of...
Obtaining professional advice on projects, and negotiating and making contracts...
Acquiring and disposing of land, doing anything in connection with...
Negotiating and making contracts for the design, production or supply...
Selling coins, medallions, currency notes and postage stamps to dealers....
Recruiting staff.
Making travel and other arrangements for staff and other persons....
Paying remuneration, allowances, expenses and pensions.
Paragraphs 1 to 6 of Schedule 1 shall apply to...
Section 10 shall apply to the Board as it applies...
Section 11 shall apply to the Board as it applies...
(1) Subject to sub-paragraph (2), section 12 shall apply in...
Any money for the time being standing to the credit...
(1) If for any accounting year there is an excess...
(1) Subject to paragraph 16, the Board may borrow money...
(1) The aggregate of the following amounts, namely—
Section 20 shall apply to the Board as it applies...
(1) The Treasury may on or after the appointed day...
Section 21 shall apply in relation to the Board as...
(1) The Board shall pay to each of their members...
(1) Subsections (1) to (4) of section 22 shall apply...
(1) Without prejudice to any other power conferred on the...
It shall be the duty of the Board to secure,...
(1) If at any time it appears to the Minister...
(1) If the prescribed day is not the 1st January,...
Paragraphs 10 to 12 of Schedule 1 shall apply to...
The Board may authorise any person to perform on behalf...
The fixing of the common seal of the Board shall...
Paragraph 18 of Schedule 1 shall apply in relation to...
(1) On the appointed day there shall by virtue of...
(1) Subject to the provisions of this paragraph, the Board...
Section 9 shall apply to the Board as it applies...
(1) If by the appointed day— (a) the unincorporated Agents...
(1) If— (a) on the appointed day the circumstances are...
Without prejudice to section 30(1)(c), an order under section 31(2)...
(1) If by the appointed day the unincorporated Agents have...
Browse 37 other sections — procedural / definitional / commencement
Reconstitution of Crown Agents as body corporate.
Vesting in Crown Agents of property, rights and liabilities.
General functions of Crown Agents.
Authorised agency activities.
Authorised non-agency activities.
Ancillary powers.
Duty to act as agents of certain governments
Pre-funding of agency activities.
Duties with respect to management of activities.
Power of Minister to obtain information from Crown Agents.
Annual reports.
Control by Crown Agents of subsidiaries.
General financial duties of Crown Agents.
Directions by Minister as to reserves of Crown Agents and their wholly owned subsidiaries.
Management of liquid assets of Crown Agents and their wholly owned subsidiaries.
Payments to Minister.
Crown Agents’ commencing capital debt.
Borrowing powers of Crown Agents and their wholly owned subsidiaries.
Limit on certain liabilities of Crown Agents and their subsidiaries.
Grants and loans by Minister.
Treasury guarantees.
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Power of Minister to give directions with respect to financial matters.
Duty to insure against insurable financial risks.
The Crown Agents Holding and Realisation Board.
Position with respect to recoverable grants paid to unincorporated Agents.
Exemptions.
Provisions as to revenue of, and alienations by, former Agents.
Administrative expenses.
Orders, regulations and consents.
Interpretation.
Consequential amendments, transitional provisions and repeals.
Citation and extent.
In Schedule 1 to the Public Records Act 1958 (definition...
(a)in the entry beginning “Crown Agents", for “Crown Agents for...
(b)after that entry insert the entry—
“Crown Agents Holding and Realisation Board"
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