Article 5 Retail prices index and family expenditure survey

(1)

There are hereby transferred to the Chancellor those functions of the Secretary of State for Employment which relate to the compilation, maintenance and publication of any general index of retail prices and the family expenditure survey.

(2)

Subject to the amendments made by Schedule 2 to this Order, any reference (however expressed) in any enactment, instrument, contract or other document to–

(a)

any general index of retail prices compiled, maintained or published by the Department of Employment,

(b)

any index compiled, maintained or published by that Department in substitution for such an index, or

(c)

the family expenditure survey published by that Department,

shall be construed, as respects compilation, maintenance or publication of any such index or survey after the coming into force of this Order, as a reference to the corresponding index or any substituted index or the corresponding survey, as the case may be, compiled, maintained or published by the transferred CSO.