{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/industrial-training-levy-plastics-processing-order-1989/introduction",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/industrial-training-levy-plastics-processing-order-1989/introduction.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1989/99",
  "legislation_title": "The Industrial Training Levy (Plastics Processing) Order 1989",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/industrial-training-levy-plastics-processing-order-1989",
  "path": "introduction",
  "kind": "introduction",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Introductory text",
  "text": "INDUSTRIAL TRAINING\nMade 25th January 1989\nLaid before Parliament 3rd February 1989\nComing into force 10th March 1989\nWhereas proposals made by the Plastics Processing Industry Training Board for the raising and collection of a levy have been submitted to, and approved by, the Training Commission under section 11(1) of the Industrial Training Act 1982 (“the 1982 Act”) and have thereafter been submitted by the said Commission to the Secretary of State under that subsection;\nAnd whereas in pursuance of section 11(3) of the 1982 Act the said proposals include provision for the exemption from the levy of employers who, in view of the small number of their employees, ought in the opinion of the Secretary of State to be exempted from it;\nAnd whereas the Secretary of State estimates that the amount which, disregarding any exemptions, will be payable by virtue of this Order by any employer in the plastics processing industry, does not exceed an amount which the Secretary of State estimates is equal to one per cent. of the relevant emoluments, being the aggregate of the emoluments and payments intended to be disbursed as emoluments which have been paid or are payable by any such employer to or in respect of persons employed in the industry, in respect of the period specified in the said proposals as relevant, that is to say the period hereafter referred to in this Order as “the twenty-second base period”;\nAnd whereas the Secretary of State is satisfied that proposals published by the said Board in pursuance of section 13 of the 1982 Act provide for exemption certificates relating to the levy in such cases as he considers appropriate;\nNow, therefore, the Secretary of State, in exercise of the powers conferred on him by sections 11(2), 12(3) and (4) of the 1982 Act and of all other powers enabling him in that behalf, hereby makes the following Order:",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "1982 c. 10."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1989/99/introduction",
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  },
  "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."
}