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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/freedom-of-information-act-2000-commencement-no-2-order-2002/schedule-1/part-I",
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  "legislation": "uksi/2002/2812",
  "legislation_title": "The Freedom of Information Act 2000 (Commencement No. 2) Order 2002",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/freedom-of-information-act-2000-commencement-no-2-order-2002",
  "path": "schedule/1/part/I",
  "kind": "part",
  "number": "I",
  "heading": "OTHER PUBLIC BODIES AND OFFICES: GENERAL",
  "text": "The Advisory Committee on Novel Foods and Processes.\nThe Advisory Council on Public Records.\nAn Agricultural Dwelling House Advisory Committee.\nAn Agricultural Wages Board for England and Wales.\nAn Agricultural Wages Committee.\nThe Alcohol Education and Research Council.\nThe Ancient Monuments Board for Wales.\nThe Apple and Pear Research Council.\nThe Arts Council of England.\nThe Arts Council of Wales.\nThe Authorised Conveyancing Practitioners Board.\nThe Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council.\nThe Britain-Russia Centre and East-West Centre.\nThe British Association for Central and Eastern Europe.\nThe British Council.\nThe British Educational Communications and Technology Agency.\nThe British Hallmarking Council.\nThe British Library.\nThe British Museum.\nThe British Potato Council.\nThe British Tourist Authority.\nThe Broadcasting Standards Commission.\nThe Care Council for Wales.\nThe Central Rail Users' Consultative Committee.\nThe Certification Officer(a).\nThe Children and Family Court Advisory and Support Service.\nThe Civil Justice Council.\nThe Coal Authority.\nThe Commission for Health Improvement.\nThe Commission for Racial Equality.\nThe Commission for the New Towns.\nThe Commissioners of Northern Lighthouses(a).\nThe Committee for Monitoring Agreements on Tobacco Advertising and Sponsorship.\nThe Committee of Investigation for Great Britain.\nThe Committee on Standards in Public Life.\nThe Commonwealth Scholarship Commission in the United Kingdom.\nThe Community Development Foundation.\nThe Competition Commission, in relation to information held by it otherwise than as a tribunal.\nThe Construction Industry Training Board.\nThe Consumer Council for Postal Services.\nThe consumers' committee for Great Britain appointed under section 19 of the Agricultural Marketing Act 1958.\nThe Council for the Central Laboratory of the Research Councils.\nThe Countryside Agency.\nThe Countryside Council for Wales.\nThe Criminal Injuries Compensation Authority(a).\nThe Criminal Injuries Compensation Appeals Panel, in relation to information held by it otherwise than as a tribunal(a).\nThe Design Council.\nThe Disability Rights Commission.\nThe Economic and Social Research Council.\nThe Electoral Commission(a).\nThe Engineering Construction Industry Training Board.\nThe Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council.\nEnglish Nature.\nThe English Sports Council.\nThe English Tourist Board.\nThe Environment Agency.\nThe Equal Opportunities Commission.\nThe Food Advisory Committee.\nFood from Britain.\nThe Football Licensing Authority.\nThe Gaming Board for Great Britain.\nThe Gas and Electricity Consumer Council(a).\nThe Gene Therapy Advisory Committee.\nThe General Social Care Council(a).\nThe General Teaching Council for Wales(a).\nThe Great Britain-China Centre.\nThe Health and Safety Commission.\nThe Health and Safety Executive.\nThe Health Service Commissioner for England.\nThe Health Service Commissioner for Wales.\nHer Majesty’s Chief Inspector of Schools in Wales.\nThe Higher Education Funding Council for England.\nThe Higher Education Funding Council for Wales.\nThe Historic Buildings Council for Wales.\nThe Historic Buildings and Monuments Commission for England.\nThe Historic Royal Palaces Trust.\nThe Home-Grown Cereals Authority.\nThe Horserace Betting Levy Board.\nThe Horticultural Development Council.\nThe Housing Corporation.\nThe Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority.\nThe Immigration Services Commissioner.\nThe Imperial War Museum.\nThe Information Commissioner.\nInvestors in People UK.\nThe Joint Nature Conservation Committee.\nThe Legal Services Commission.\nThe Library and Information Services Council (Wales).\nThe Local Government Boundary Commission for Wales.\nThe Marshall Aid Commemoration Commission.\nThe Meat and Livestock Commission.\nThe Medical Research Council.\nThe Milk Development Council.\nThe Millennium Commission.\nThe Museum of London.\nThe National Army Museum.\nThe National Biological Standards Board (UK).\nThe National Consumer Council.\nThe National Council for Education and Training for Wales.\nThe National Employers' Liaison Committee.\nThe National Endowment for Science, Technology and the Arts.\nThe National Gallery.\nThe National Heritage Memorial Fund.\nThe National Library of Wales.\nThe National Lottery Charities Board.\nThe National Lottery Commission.\nThe National Maritime Museum.\nThe National Museum of Science and Industry.\nThe National Museums and Galleries of Wales.\nThe National Museums and Galleries on Merseyside.\nThe National Portrait Gallery.\nThe National Radiological Protection Board.\nThe Natural Environment Research Council.\nThe Natural History Museum.\nThe New Opportunities Fund.\nThe Occupational Pensions Regulatory Authority.\nThe Oil and Pipelines Agency.\nThe Parliamentary Boundary Commission for England.\nThe Parliamentary Boundary Commission for Scotland.\nThe Parliamentary Boundary Commission for Wales.\nThe Parliamentary Commissioner for Administration.\nThe Parole Board.\nThe Particle Physics and Astronomy Research Council.\nThe Pensions Compensation Board.\nThe Qualifications, Curriculum and Assessment Authority for Wales.\nThe Qualifications Curriculum Authority.\nAny Rail Passengers' Committee established under section 2(2) of the Railways Act 1993.\nAny regional development agency established under the Regional Development Agencies Act 1998, other than the London Development Agency.\nThe Registrar of Public Lending Right.\nRemploy Ltd.\nResource: The Council for Museums, Archives and Libraries.\nThe Reviewing Committee on the Export of Works of Art.\nThe Royal Air Force Museum.\nThe Royal Armouries.\nThe Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew.\nThe Royal Commission on Ancient and Historical Monuments of Wales.\nThe Royal Commission on Historical Manuscripts.\nThe Scientific Committee on Tobacco and Health.\nThe Sea Fish Industry Authority.\nSir John Soane’s Museum.\nThe Sports Council for Wales.\nThe Standing Dental Advisory Committee.\nThe Standing Nursing and Midwifery Advisory Committee.\nThe Standing Medical Advisory Committee.\nThe Standing Pharmaceutical Advisory Committee.\nThe Strategic Rail Authority.\nThe Tate Gallery.\nThe Teacher Training Agency.\nThe Treasure Valuation Committee.\nThe UK Sports Council.\nThe United Kingdom Atomic Energy Authority.\nThe United Kingdom Register of Organic Food Standards.\nThe United Kingdom Xenotransplantation Interim Regulatory Authority.\nThe Unrelated Live Transplant Regulatory Authority.\nThe Urban Regeneration Agency.\nThe Victoria and Albert Museum.\nThe Wales New Deal Advisory Task Force.\nThe Wales Tourist Board.\nThe Wallace Collection.\nThe War Pensions Committees.\nThe Welsh Administration Ombudsman.\nThe Welsh Committee for Professional Development of Pharmacy.\nThe Welsh Dental Committee.\nThe Welsh Development Agency.\nThe Welsh Industrial Development Advisory Board.\nThe Welsh Language Board.\nThe Welsh Medical Committee.\nThe Welsh Nursing and Midwifery Committee.\nThe Welsh Optometric Committee.\nThe Welsh Pharmaceutical Committee.\nThe Welsh Scientific Advisory Committee.\nThe Westminster Foundation for Democracy.\nThe Wine Standards Board of the Vintners' Company.\nThe Women’s National Commission.\nThe Youth Justice Board for England and Wales.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "This body was added to Part VI of Schedule 1 to the Act by S.I. 2002/2623."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "This body was renamed the Rail Passengers' Council by section 227(1) of the Transport Act 2000 (c. 38). By section 227(3) of that Act, references in instruments made under other Acts to the Central Rail Users' Consultative Committee have effect as references to the Rail Passengers' Council."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f3",
      "text": "1958 c. 47."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f4",
      "text": "This body was renamed the National Employer Advisory Board with effect from 23rd September 2002."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f5",
      "text": "1993 c. 43. These bodies were formerly known as Rail Users' Consultative Committees, but were renamed by section 227(1) of the Transport Act 2000 (c. 38), and section 2(2) of the Railways Act 1993 was amended accordingly. They were added to Part VI of Schedule 1 to the Act by S.I. 2002/2623."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f6",
      "text": "1998 c. 45."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f7",
      "text": "This body was added to Part VI of Schedule 1 to the Act by paragraph 30 of Schedule 14 to the Transport Act 2000"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f8",
      "text": "This body was renamed the Wine Standards Board with effect from 1st April 2002."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "entry revoked",
      "affecting": "wsi/2006/64",
      "affecting_title": "The Ancient Monuments Board for Wales (Abolition) Order 2006"
    },
    {
      "type": "entry revoked",
      "affecting": "uksi/2014/1924",
      "affecting_title": "The Public Bodies (Abolition of Food from Britain) Order 2014"
    },
    {
      "type": "words revoked",
      "affecting": "wsi/2005/3239",
      "affecting_title": "The Qualifications, Curriculum and Assessment Authority for Wales (Transfer of Functions to the National Assembly for Wales and Abolition) Order 2005"
    }
  ],
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    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2002/2812/schedule/1/part/I",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T06:40:23.607115+00:00"
  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
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