Citation, commencement and interpretation

1.—(1) This Order may be cited as the Parliamentary Commissioner Order 2006.

(2) This Order comes into force on 22^nd January 2007.

(3) In this Order, “the Act” means the Parliamentary Commissioner Act 1967.

Amendments to the Act

2.  In Schedule 2 to the Act—

(a)insert the following entries in the appropriate place in alphabetical order—

• Animal Welfare Advisory Committee

• Advisory Committee on Animal Feedingstuffs

• Advisory Committee on Hazardous Substances

• Advisory Committee on Microbiological Safety of Food

• Advisory Group on Medical Countermeasures

• Central Advisory Committee on War Pensions

• Competition Service

• Cycling England

• Defence Nuclear Advisory Committee

• Defence Scientific Advisory Committee

• England Implementation Group

• Firebuy Limited

• Herbal Medicines Advisory Committee

• National Victims Advisory Panel

• Nuclear Liabilities Fund

• Nuclear Research Advisory Council

• The Quality Improvement Agency

• The School Food Trust

• Technology Strategy Board

• Union Modernisation Fund Supervisory Board

• UK Chemical Weapons Convention National Authority Advisory Committee;

(b)delete the following entries—

• Dental Vocational Training Authority

• Intellectual Property Advisory Committee

• National Health Service-wide Clearing Service

• Standing Medical Advisory Committee

• Standing Nursing and Midwifery Advisory Committee

• Standing Pharmaceutical Advisory Committee

• Wider Health Working Group

• Wine Standards Board;

(c)for “Independent Review body for the Advertising of Medicines” substitute “Independent Review Panel for Advertising”;

(d)for “Independent Review Panel on the Classification of Borderline Medicines” substitute “Independent Review Panel on the Classification of Borderline Products”.

3.  In Schedule 4 to the Act, delete the entries relating to—

• Dental Vocational Training Authority Appeal Body

• Registered Inspectors of Schools Appeal Tribunals.

Revocations

4.  The Orders specified in the Schedule are revoked.

Article 4

SCHEDULEREVOCATIONS

EXPLANATORY NOTE

(This note is not part of the Order)

This Order amends the Parliamentary Commissioner Act 1967. It adds the bodies referred to in article 2(a) to the list of departments and authorities which are subject to investigation by the Parliamentary Commissioner for Administration; it deletes from that list those bodies referred to in article 2(b); and it amends those entries in the list referred to in article 2(c) and (d). This Order deletes the bodies referred to in article 3 from the list of bodies whose administrative functions may be subject to investigation by the Parliamentary Commissioner for Administration under the terms of section 5(7). This Order also revokes instruments amending the Parliamentary Commissioner Act 1967 which are spent.