{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/ogcbuyingsolutions-trading-fund-appropriation-of-additional-assets-and-liabilities-order-2004/introduction",
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  "legislation": "uksi/2004/3277",
  "legislation_title": "The OGCbuying.solutions Trading Fund (Appropriation of Additional Assets and Liabilities) Order 2004",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/ogcbuyingsolutions-trading-fund-appropriation-of-additional-assets-and-liabilities-order-2004",
  "path": "introduction",
  "kind": "introduction",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Introductory text",
  "text": "GOVERNMENT TRADING FUNDS\nMade 9th December 2004\nLaid before Parliament 10th December 2004\nComing into force 31st December 2004\nWhereas:\n[1] the OGCbuying.solutions Trading Fund (\"the Fund\") was established under the Government Trading Funds Act 1973 (\"the 1973 Act\") by the Buying Agency Trading Fund Order 1991 (\"the principal Order\") with effect from 1st April 1991;\n[2] the Crown assets and liabilities described in general terms in Schedule 2 to the principal Order were appropriated as assets and liabilities of the Fund at the values and amounts specified in that Schedule; and\n[3] the Chancellor of the Exchequer, with Treasury concurrence, has determined that the additional Crown assets and liabilities referred to in Article 2 of this Order are properly attributable to the operations for which the Fund was established and suitable to be appropriated to the Fund;\n[4] Now, therefore, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, in exercise of the powers conferred on him by sections 1, 2(2) and (7) and 6(1) of the 1973 Act and of all other powers enabling him in that behalf, with the concurrence of the Treasury, hereby makes the following Order:",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "1973 c. 63; the 1973 Act was amended by the Government Trading Act 1990 (c. 30) and the 1973 Act as so amended is set out in Schedule 1 to the 1990 Act; section 2 was further amended by section 119 of the Finance Act 1991 (c..31) and by section 210 of and Schedule 22 to the Finance Act 1993 (c. 34); section 4 was further amended by section 29 of the Government Resources and Accounts Act 2000 (c. 20)."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "S.I. 1991/875, amended by S.I. 1992/123, S.I.1995/1665, S.I.1996/1080, S.I.2000/648, and S.I.2001/922."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2004/3277/introduction",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T05:13:23.740785+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."
}