Article 8 Functions with respect to the provision of services to regional development agencies

(1)

The Development Commission shall have functions with respect to the provision of services of the following descriptions to any regional development agency–

(a)

financial services;

(b)

administration;

(c)

personnel services;

(d)

services relating to the use of information technology;

(e)

services relating to the management of land and buildings;

(f)

training and advice in connection with the services listed above.

(2)

The Urban Regeneration Agency shall have functions with respect to the provision of services of the following descriptions to any regional development agency–

(a)

financial services;

(b)

administration;

(c)

personnel services;

(d)

services relating to the use of information technology;

(e)

services relating to the management of land and buildings;

(f)

research;

(g)

best practice guidance;

(h)

project appraisal;

(i)

training and advice in connection with the services listed above.

(3)

The Development Commission shall make one or more schemes for the transfer to the Urban Regeneration Agency of such of the Development Commission’s property, rights and liabilities relating to the functions in paragraph (1) above as appear to the Secretary of State appropriate to be transferred in consequence of this Order.

(4)

Schedule 2 to this Order (being the provisions of Schedule 8 to the 1998 Act with those modifications which the Secretary of State thinks fit) shall apply in relation to any scheme under this article with the following modifications–

(a)

in paragraph 1, for the words “article 7” there shall be substituted the words “article 8”; and

(b)

for the words “the Countryside Agency” wherever they appear, there shall be substituted the words “the Urban Regeneration Agency”.