Statutory Instruments
2003 No. 2869
NATIONAL LOTTERY
The New Opportunities Fund (Increase in Membership) Order 2003
Made
9th November 2003
Laid before Parliament
11th November 2003
Coming into force
1st January 2004
The Secretary of State, in exercise of the powers conferred upon her by paragraph 1(3) of Schedule 6A to the National Lottery etc. Act 1993(1) hereby makes the following Order:
Citation and commencement
1. This Order may be cited as the New Opportunities Fund (Increase in Membership) Order 2003 and shall come into force on 1st January 2004.
Increase in membership
2. Paragraph 1(1) of Schedule 6A to the National Lottery etc. Act 1993 is amended so as to substitute the number “16” for the number “12”.
Estelle Morris
Minister of State,
Department for Culture, Media and Sport
9th November 2003
Explanatory Note
(This note is not part of the Order)
This Order increases the maximum number of members that may be appointed by the Secretary of State to the New Opportunities Fund (established under section 43A of the National Lottery etc. Act 1993) from twelve to sixteen.
1993 c. 39; Schedule 6A was inserted by section 7(3) of, and Schedule 2 to, the National Lottery Act 1998 (c. 22).