Schedule 2

 

Allotments and Smallholdings

Allotment – refers mainly to lands which are held by local authorities under the Allotments Acts 1908 to 1950 for the purpose of providing persons resident in their areas with small plots of land for cultivation.

  • allotments, includes:
  • provision of allotments
  • land for allotments
  • management
  • finance
  • administration
  • smallholdings, includes:
  • land
  • management
  • finance
  • administration
  • cottage holdings
  • provision of cottage holdings
  • management of cottage holdings

 

Animals – law relates principally to the keeping, health and welfare (including conservation) of animals. Some areas of law touching on certain animals, or specific matters relating to animals, are addressed elsewhere. These include the keeping and breeding of animals for purposes of agriculture (see agriculture); fishing and fisheries (see fisheries); protection of whales and seals (see fisheries), the property held by the Crown in certain animals (see Crown property); matters relating to meat and other foodstuffs derived from animals (see food); the conditions for the slaughter of animals for food (see food); and veterinary medicinal products (see medicine, pharmacy, drugs and medicinal products).

Animals

  • animals as the subject of property
  • game rights
  • liability of owners and keepers of animals
  • animal welfare and protection from cruelty
  • dogs
  • animal establishments
  • zoos
  • trade in endangered species
  • protection and keeping of wild animals
  • animal health
  • veterinary surgeons and the practice of veterinary surgeons

 

Aviation – a large part of UK law relating to civil aviation is directly or indirectly derived for the provisions of international conventions. These conventions are the outcome of agreements between numbers of sovereign states providing for the mutual and uniform regulation of air traffic and related matters.

UK air law is principally regulated by statute and statutory instruments. The main statutes include the Civil Aviation Act 1982 (which confers comprehensive enabling powers for the regulation of civil aviation), the Airports Act 1986 (which deals with the regulation and use of airport facilities), and Part I of the Transport Act 2000 (which deals with air traffic services).

  • administration and finance, includes:
  • local authorities
  • the Civil Aviation Authority
  • national emergencies
  • licensing, includes:
  • licensing functions under Air Navigation Orders
  • licensing of air carriers
  • provision of accommodation in aircraft
  • licensing of air traffic services
  • aerodromes and land, includes:
  • provision of aerodromes
  • licensing of aerodromes
  • movement of aircraft on land and sea
  • customs rules
  • immigration requirements
  • diseases and pests
  • aircraft, includes:
  • manufacture, registration and marking of aircraft
  • certificates (of, for e.g., airworthiness, emissions, noise)
  • equipment and repairs
  • operators and crew
  • air navigation, includes:
  • air navigation services
  • rules of the air
  • operation of aircraft, includes:
  • documents and records
  • duties before flight
  • flying
  • accidents and incidents
  • carriage by air
  • liabilities

 

Banking – Financial Services and Markets Act 2000 (regulation of banking). Bank of England granted new powers for the formulation of monetary policy under the Banking Act 1998

  • Bank of England

 

Bankruptcy and Individual Insolvency – Insolvency Act 1986

  • official receivers

 

Building – principal enactment relating to the control of building throughout England and Wales is the Building Act 1984

  • supervision
  • supervision by local authorities
  • supervision by approved inspectors and public bodies

 

Building Societies – a building society is a society incorporated under the Building Societies Act 1986. A society may be established if its purpose or principal purpose is that of making loans which are secured on residential property and are funded substantially by its members and its principal office is in the UK.

  • the Financial Services Authority’s powers of control

 

Charities – the Charities Act 1993 – charity means any institution, corporate or not, which is established for charitable purposes and is subject to the control of the high court in the exercise of its jurisdiction with respect to charities.

  • registration of charities; local authorities’ indexes and functions
  • jurisdiction over charities, includes:
  • the Crown
  • the courts
  • the Secretary of State
  • regulations and orders

 

Children and Young Persons

  • central government administration
  • the Secretary of State and the National Assembly for Wales
  • the Children’s Commissioner for Wales

 

Commonwealth – term ordinarily signifies first, the voluntary association of independent sovereign states which are recognised by each other as associated for the purposes of consultation and cooperation, and which recognises the Queen as the symbol of their free association and as such the Head of the Commonwealth; and secondly, the whole of the territories and dependences of the states thus associated as members of the Commonwealth.

  • the Commonwealth association, includes:
  • the Crown in the Commonwealth
  • attainment and consequences of independence
  • member countries
  • acquisition, status and constitutions of British overseas territories, includes:
  • protection of fundamental rights and freedoms in British overseas territories
  • the judicature in British overseas territories
  • special jurisdiction of courts in British overseas territories
  • admiralty jurisdiction
  • other special jurisdictions
  • the extension of English law, includes:
  • introduction of English law to settled colonies
  • extension of UK statutes

Companies

  • the European company (Societas Europaea), includes:
  • formation
  • structure
  • transfer to another member state
  • termination of the company

 

Company and Partnership Insolvency

  • administrative receivers, includes:
  • appointment and status
  • duties, powers and liability
  • meetings of creditors
  • functions of the Secretary of State

 

Compulsory Acquisition of Land

  • powers to acquire land, includes:
  • nature of compulsory purchase
  • the empowering enactments
  • compulsory purchase orders
  • rights of owners etc to require purchase of interests
  • interests affected by planning decisions or orders
  • interests affected by planning blight
  • steps in the acquisition of land, includes:
  • survey before acquisition
  • purchase by agreement
  • completion of purchase
  • steps where land under lease , short tenancy, rent charge or mortgage
  • claims for purchase money or compensation
  • right to and claims for purchase money or compensation
  • settlement of claims by lands tribunal
  • assessment of purchase money or compensation, includes:
  • the right to compensation
  • the land and buildings to be valued
  • market or reinstatement value of land taken
  • compensation for severance etc as part of purchase money
  • compensation for disturbance from the land acquired, includes:
  • compensation to owners as part of the purchase money
  • compensation to tenants
  • short tenancies
  • payments for disturbance apart from compensation, includes:
  • classes of payments and persons entitled
  • home loss payments
  • farm loss payments
  • betterment reducing compensation, includes:
  • general power of deduction
  • circumstances involving increase in value of other land
  • other statutory powers of deduction
  • use of land acquired and compensation for injury, includes:
  • permissible works on and uses of land acquired
  • rehousing and rating liabilities of acquiring authorities
  • mitigation of injurious effect of works

 

  • human rights and freedoms, includes:
  • human rights and freedoms under English law/the European Convention

 

Coroners

  • the office of coroner, includes:
  • practice and procedure
  • duties, privileges and liabilities of coroners
  • coroners’ officers
  • inquests, including:
  • duty to report death to coroner
  • procedure before inquests
  • proceedings at inquests
  • functus officio
  • documents and other property
  • challenging the coroner’s decisions
  • inquests into treasure

 

Courts

  • the high court of Parliament
  • original jurisdiction
  • appellate jurisdiction and procedure
  • the judicial committee of the privy council, includes:
  • constitution
  • jurisdiction
  • practice and procedure in Commonwealth appeals

 

Criminal Law, Evidence and Procedure

  • prosecution authorities
  • law officers
  • the Crown Prosecution Service
  • the Serious Fraud Office
  • Revenue and Customs Prosecutions Office

 

Crown Proceedings and Crown Practice

  • the Crown Proceedings Act 1947
  • legal proceedings by the Crown
  • legal proceedings against the Crown
  • procedure under the Crown proceedings Act 1947, includes:
  • parties
  • practice and procedure

 

Crown Property

  • certain types of revenues
  • application of the law to the Crown
  • casual revenues, includes:
  • minerals
  • wild animals
  • escheat and bona vacantia
  • foreshore and wreck
  • Crown estate
  • Duchy of Lancaster
  • Duchy of Cornwall
  • Crown private estates
  • palaces and parks
  • Crown chattels and personalty

 

Education

  • local education authorities
  • the Secretary of State and the National Assembly for Wales
  • curriculum, assessment and external qualifications, includes:
  • the qualifications and curriculum authority and the qualifications, curriculum and assessment authority for Wales
  • school performance targets
  • inspection and intervention, includes:
  • schools
  • adult learning and further education
  • teacher training institutions

 

Employment

  • Crown employment; Parliamentary staff

 

Financial Services (and Investment) – financial services are mainly regulated by the Financial Services and Markets Act 2000, with much of the detailed provision contained in secondary legislation made under that Act.

  • legislation, rules and guidance
  • regulatory bodies
  • the regulator and the tribunal
  • the financial services authority
  • rules and guidance by the financial services authority
  • the financial services and markets tribunal
  • regulated and prohibited activities
  • the general prohibition and the requirement for permission
  • regulated activities ( dealing in investments)
  • financial promotion
  • authorisation, exemption, etc in relation to regulated activities
  • authorisation
  • exemption
  • permission to carry on regulated activities
  • performance
  • official listing, includes:
  • listing particulars
  • prospectuses
  • enforcement, includes:
  • penalties for market abuse
  • power of intervention in relation to incoming firms
  • injunctions and restitution
  • public record and disclosure of information
  • insolvency
  • offences
  • ombudsman and compensation schemes
  • the ombudsman scheme
  • the financial services compensation schemes
  • specialist areas
  • control over authorised persons
  • control of business transfers
  • collective investment schemes
  • recognised investment exchanges and clearing houses
  • Lloyd’s
  • provision of financial services by members of the professions
  • mutual societies
  • actuaries and auditors
  • miscellaneous procedural and other matters
  • procedure for notices given by the financial services authority
  • miscellaneous matters

 

Fire Services

  • the principal legislation
  • general law
  • fire service administration
  • central administration
  • local administration
  • fire brigades, includes:
  • terms of service
  • fire-fighting, includes:
  • powers and duties of fire authorities and personnel
  • offences
  • fire precautions, includes:
  • legislation
  • fire precautions regulations
  • enforcement

 

Food – for definition, refer to the Food and Environment Protection Act 1985, the Food Safety Act 1990 and the Food Standards Act 1999.

  • administration, includes:
  • enforcement authorities
  • powers of inspection, sampling and analysis
  • registration and licensing of food premises

 

Forestry

  • forestry administration, includes:
  • forest legislation and courts
  • the Forestry Commission
  • acquisition of land
  • timber and trees
  • trees
  • forestry dedication covenants
  • the felling of trees

 

Friendly Societies – two principal types – societies registered under the Friendly Societies Act 1974, and those registered and incorporated under the Friendly Societies Act 1992.

  • the regulatory authorities
  • the Friendly Societies Commission
  • the central office of the registry of friendly societies

 

Fuel and Energy

  • general legislative controls
  • European Community requirements; in general
  • energy conservation
  • gas, includes:
  • gas legislation ( the Gas Act 1986; the Competition and Service (utilities) Act 1992; the Gas (exempt supplies) Act 1993)
  • cognate legislation
  • regulatory authorities
  • regulation of gas supply
  • general offences
  • underground storage of gas
  • electricity, includes:
  • legislation relating to the electricity supply industry ( the Electricity Act 1989); the Competition and Service (utilities) Act 1992)
  • regulatory authorities
  • licensing of electricity supply
  • enforcement
  • consumer protection; provision of information
  • protection of public interest
  • works and rights over land
  • civil and criminal liability of licence holders
  • atomic energy and radioactive substances, includes:
  • legislation and administration
  • control in relation to radioactive materials and waste
  • enforcement, entry and inspection
  • offences and penalties; service of notices
  • petroleum production, includes:
  • licensing
  • offshore workings and installations
  • finance

 

Health and Safety at Work

  • administration, includes:
  • European Union bodies
  • the Secretary of State
  • the Health and Safety Commission
  • The Health and Safety Executive
  • Inspectors
  • reports, inquiries and accidents etc

 

Highways, Streets and Bridges

  • the current legislation (the Highways Act 1980)
  • highway authorities, includes:
  • the Secretary of State
  • local highway authorities
  • acquisition and use of land for highway purposes, includes:
  • acquisition of land
  • acquisition of rights over land
  • exchange of land
  • procedure for acquisition
  • creation of highways, includes:
  • statutory creation and construction
  • making up of private streets
  • adoption of private streets
  • public rights over highway land, includes:
  • public right of passage
  • toll bridges and toll roads
  • private property rights in relation to highway land, includes:
  • rights of owner of soil
  • access to highways
  • repair and maintenance of highways, includes:
  • liability to repair
  • works of repair
  • liability of non-repair and injury by repair
  • protection of highways and highway rights
  • common law protection of highways
  • statutory protection of highways
  • statutory works in highways, includes:
  • street works under the New Roads and Street Works Act 1991
  • improvement of highways, includes:
  • general powers
  • dual carriageways and roundabouts
  • lighting
  • rails, barriers, subways and footbridges
  • footpaths and other public rights of way, includes:
  • maintenance and repair
  • protection of public rights of way
  • compensation
  • cycle tracks
  • trunk roads and special roads, includes:
  • highway authorities in relation to trunk roads
  • orders
  • provision of special roads
  • tolls
  • stopping up or diversion of highways, includes:
  • common law and statutory powers
  • temporary closure for special events
  • highways in London, includes:
  • GLA roads
  • protection of highways
  • amenities
  • bridges and tunnels, includes:
  • construction of bridges and tunnels
  • watercourses
  • protection of bridges
  • ferries, includes:
  • transfer and extinguishment of ferries
  • owner’s rights and liabilities
  • legal proceedings and miscellaneous statutory powers
  • legal proceedings and public inquiries
  • miscellaneous and supplementary powers

 

Housing

  • the legislation and administration, includes:
  • administrative provisions of the Housing Act 2004
  • obligation to provide and manage housing, includes:
  • reviews and records of need
  • management of local authority housing
  • accommodation needs of gypsies and travellers
  • large scale voluntary transfers
  • housing action trusts, includes:
  • areas and trusts
  • disposals of land
  • rents
  • dissolution
  • housing conditions and housing standards, includes:
  • housing standards
  • houses incapable of being made fit
  • overcrowding, includes:
  • responsibility of occupier
  • responsibility of landlord
  • powers and duties of local housing authority
  • houses in multiple occupation, includes:
  • HMO declarations
  • licensing of houses in multiple occupations
  • selective licensing of private landlords, includes:
  • application of licensing provisions
  • Part 3 licenses
  • enforcement
  • management orders under the Housing Act 2004
  • interim and final management orders
  • interim and final empty dwellings management orders
  • compulsory purchase and related provisions
  • area improvement, includes
  • renewal areas
  • housing action areas and general improvement areas
  • housing grants, includes:
  • grants
  • restrictions on grant aid
  • payment of grants
  • home energy efficiency and conservation
  • loans for acquisition or improvement of housing, includes:
  • local authority mortgages
  • assistance for first-time buyers
  • exercise of power of sale
  • assistance for owners of defective housing, includes:
  • reinstatement grant
  • repurchase
  • administrative provision

 

Intoxicating Liquor

  • the licensing system, includes:
  • statutory control of intoxicating liquor
  • licensing justices
  • the Licensing Act 2003
  • justices’ licenses, includes:
  • new licenses
  • renewal of licenses
  • revocation of licenses
  • register of licenses
  • appeals
  • permitted hours
  • hours for sale and supply
  • exemptions
  • offences and regulation of licensed premises, includes:
  • illegal sales
  • offences in relation to children and young persons
  • discrimination
  • regulation of manufacture and supply, includes:
  • alcoholic liquors generally
  • spirits

 

Legal Aid – (Part I of the Access to Justice Act 1999)

  • legal aid and human rights
  • other relevant legislation and procedure
  • the Legal Services Commission, includes:
  • establishment and membership
  • general powers of the Commission
  • general powers of the Lord Chancellor
  • the community legal service, includes:
  • establishment, maintenance and development of the community legal service
  • funding of services
  • the criminal defence service, includes:
  • establishment, maintenance and development of the criminal defence service
  • funding of services; in general
  • representation
  • payments under contract
  • offences and miscellaneous matters

 

Libraries and other Scientific and Cultural Institutions

  • libraries
  • the British Library
  • offences relating to libraries
  • the local authority library service
  • public lending right
  • literary, scientific and cultural institutions and bodies, includes:
  • the Research Councils
  • institutions within the Literary and Scientific Institutions Act
  • particular bodies
  • miscellaneous financial matters, includes:
  • distribution of the net proceeds of the National Lottery
  • transfers and loan
  • transfers t and from certain institutions
  • objects on loan
  • unlawful removals and lawful exports, includes:
  • control of lawful exports

 

Medicinal Products and Drugs (the Medicines Act 1968)

  • the Commission on Human Medicines

 

Mines, Minerals and Quarries

  • the Secretary of State and the National Assembly for Wales
  • the Coal Authority

 

Ports and Harbours – the creation and formation of ports and harbours in England and Wales, as well the law relating to their administration, management and development by harbour authorities. Also, harbour conservancy, the law relating to the safety of harbours and various provisions relating to the environmental protection of harbours.

  • administration
  • creation, formation and use of ports and harbours
  • harbour authorities, includes:
  • associated British ports
  • the Port of London Authority
  • harbour orders and schemes, includes:
  • harbour revision orders
  • orders about port appointments
  • harbour empowerment orders
  • orders amending acts of local application
  • right to challenge orders and schemes
  • provision of harbour works and facilities
  • harbour charges
  • imposition of charges
  • ascertainment and recovery of charges
  • ancient right to take tolls and dues
  • borrowing, financial assistance and accounts
  • management and regulation, includes:
  • byelaws, conditions and regulations
  • duties of masters and others within harbours
  • conservancy, safety and pollution
  • powers in relation to national defence
  • liabilities
  • enforcement and administration of harbour law
  • privatisation of certain port undertakings, includes:
  • transfer of port undertakings
  • disposal of ownership of the successor company
  • levies on disposals
  • supplementary provisions
  • port of Tilbury

 

Post Office

  • constitution and functions, includes:
  • constitution, powers and duties
  • finance
  • land
  • the business of the post office, includes:
  • the services provided by the post office
  • the legal basis on which services are provided
  • the inland post
  • the overseas post
  • customs and excise
  • elections, election addresses, petitions etc
  • offences and legal proceedings

 

Prisons

  • administration and establishment, includes:
  • general framework of the prison system
  • prison authorities
  • the prison service
  • prison establishments
  • contracting out of prisons
  • convicted prisoners, includes:
  • classification and custody
  • transfer of prisoners within the British Isles
  • repatriation of prisoners
  • prisoners’ rights and privileges
  • maintenance of discipline and order
  • release, discharge and death
  • particular establishments
  • types of prison establishments for adults
  • types of prison establishments for young offenders
  • unconvicted prisoners
  • general provisions
  • particular classes of unconvicted prisoners
  • remand centres

 

Railways, inland waterways and pipelines

  • reorganisation of the railways, includes:
  • the British Railways Board
  • reorganisation of the activities formerly carried out by British Railways Board
  • control over railways, includes:
  • the rail regulator
  • the director or passenger rail franchising
  • licensing of operators of railway assets
  • consumer protection
  • emergencies and security
  • travel facilities
  • financial provisions
  • passenger transport services
  • inland waterways, includes:
  • the British Waterways Board
  • powers of the British Waterways Board under the Transport Acts 1962 and 1968
  • powers under other legislation
  • construction and maintenance

 

Registration concerning the Individual

  • registration of births, deaths and marriages, includes:
  • custody of registers
  • searches and certificates
  • offences
  • effecting registration, includes:
  • registration of births
  • registration of deaths
  • registration of events at sea and abroad
  • the registration service
  • the Registrar General and the general register office
  • registration officers
  • organisation
  • statistics of population
  • information which may be required
  • obtaining the information
  • offences

 

Sheriffs

  • the office
  • sheriffs
  • under-sheriffs, deputies, bailiffs and other officers
  • fees, poundage and accounts
  • powers, duties and liabilities
  • functions of sheriffs generally
  • execution of process
  • liability of sheriff for acts of officers
  • offences

 

Social Security and Pensions

  • introduction to social security, includes:
  • setting the rates of contribution and benefits
  • special provisions
  • regulations and orders
  • contributions, include:
  • the classes of contributions
  • consequential provisions
  • contributory benefits, includes:
  • incapacity benefit
  • state maternity allowance
  • widow’s benefit etc
  • non-contributory benefits, include:
  • severe disablement allowance
  • invalid care allowance
  • attendance allowance
  • increases for dependants
  • industrial injuries benefit, includes:
  • disablement pension
  • industrial diseases
  • payments under Pneumoconiosis etc (Workers’ Compensation) Act 1979
  • income-related benefits, includes:
  • income support
  • disability working allowance
  • the social fund
  • child benefit, includes:
  • defining the conditions of entitlement
  • exclusions
  • rate of benefit
  • jobseeker’s allowance, includes:
  • contribution-based jobseeker’s allowance
  • income-based jobseeker’s allowance
  • disqualification and sanctions
  • special provisions and special categories
  • administration, includes:
  • general administrative provisions
  • payments of benefit
  • overpayments and adjustments of benefit
  • advisory bodies and consultation
  • European Community law, includes:
  • equal treatment of men and women in social security
  • non-discrimination on grounds of nationality
  • introduction to pensions, includes:
  • general principles relating to occupational and other private pension provision
  • state retirement pensions, includes:
  • entitlement
  • claims and payments
  • regulation of private pension provision, includes:
  • the Occupational Pensions Regulatory Authority
  • the pensions ombudsman
  • retirement annuity contracts, includes:
  • relevant earnings
  • unused relief
  • personal pension schemes and personal equity plans
  • occupational pension schemes, includes:
  • general principles
  • equality
  • pension fund trustees
  • investments
  • dispute resolution
  • winding up
  • insolvency of employer
  • payment of surplus to employer
  • public service pension schemes
  • contracting out, includes:
  • requirements for certification
  • cancellation, variation, surrender and refusal of certificates
  • termination of contracted-out or appropriate scheme status
  • protection for early leavers, includes:
  • preservation of benefit under occupational schemes
  • transfer values
  • pensions on divorce
  • miscellaneous provisions, includes:
  • information provisions
  • special cases
  • general offences
  • general financial provision
  • general provisions in relation to regulations and orders

 

Telecommunications and Broadcasting

  • regulations of communications, includes:
  • the office of communications
  • the Secretary of State
  • other regulators
  • general provisions of the Communications Act 2003
  • telecommunications, includes:
  • common law obligations
  • legislation
  • regulatory authorities other than OFCOM
  • regulation by OFCOM of electronic communications networks and services
  • codes of practice
  • offences
  • disputes and appeals
  • wireless telegraphy and spectrum use, includes:
  • licensing of wireless telegraphy
  • broadcasting, includes:
  • television and radio services: regulatory provision
  • licensing of television reception
  • the British Broadcasting Corporation
  • regulatory structure for independent television services
  • digital terrestrial broadcasting
  • sound programme services
  • political broadcasts
  • copyright and other rights
  • television and radio services: media ownership and control
  • transfer of undertakings, property, rights and liabilities
  • facilitation of electronic commerce

 

Town and Country Planning

  • legislative framework
  • application of planning legislation to the Crown
  • other special cases
  • administration
  • environmental assessment
  • statutory consultees and non-statutory professional bodies
  • regional and Welsh national planning
  • regional planning in England
  • the Wales spatial plan
  • locals development planning
  • area survey under the 2004 Act
  • development plans under the 2004 Act
  • unitary, structure and local plans under the 1990 Act
  • development control; in general, includes:
  • exercise of functions relating to development control
  • what constitutes development
  • methods of control
  • simplified planning zones
  • discretionary permission for development
  • control of exiting uses; in general
  • enforcement; in general, includes:
  • rights of entry
  • planning contravention notices
  • temporary stop notices
  • breach of condition notices
  • injunctions
  • certificates of lawful use or development
  • appeals etc; in general, includes:
  • rights of appeal to the Secretary of State or the Assembly
  • appeals to the High Court
  • judicial review; maladministration
  • planning inquiries etc; in general
  • local inquiries
  • planning inquiry commissions
  • control of particular types of development, includes:
  • mineral working
  • control of advertisements
  • preservations of trees and hedgerows
  • development by local planning authorities
  • compensation, includes:
  • exercise of functions
  • compensation for revocation of planning permission etc
  • compensation for other planning decisions
  • recovery from acquiring authorities of sums paid
  • acquisition and appropriation of land
  • acquisition of land
  • appropriation and disposal of land
  • enabling powers in relation to acquired or appropriated land
  • acquisition of land in Wales by the Welsh development agency
  • rights to require purchase of interests
  • interests affected by planning decisions or orders
  • interests affected by planning proposals; blight
  • statutory undertakers, includes:
  • application of provisions controlling development
  • modifications of compulsory purchase procedures
  • extension or modification of statutory undertakers’ functions
  • compensation
  • licensing and control of caravan sites, includes:
  • licensing of caravan sites
  • power to prohibit caravans on commons
  • removal of unauthorised campers
  • historic buildings and their contents, includes:
  • relevant bodies
  • grants and loans for preservation of historic buildings etc
  • endowments
  • register of historic gardens etc
  • listed buildings and conservation areas, includes:
  • appeals etc relating to listed buildings and conservation areas
  • hazardous substances, includes:
  • application of legislation to the Crown
  • hazardous substances authorities
  • rights of entry
  • hazardous substances consent
  • contravention of hazardous substances control
  • validity of notices and decisions
  • urban development and regeneration, includes:
  • English partnerships and the Welsh development agency
  • new town
  • urban development areas
  • enterprise zones
  • financial assistance for urban regeneration
  • judicial review; maladministration

 

Trade, Industry and Industrial Relations

  • administration
  • the Department of Trade and Industry and other central departments
  • inquiries and arbitrations
  • trade and freedom to trade
  • trade and business
  • sale of goodwill
  • restraint of trade
  • domestic competition law: the Fair Trading Act 1973, includes:
  • monopolies, competition and the common law
  • the Competition Commission
  • domestic competition law: the Competition Act 1998, includes:
  • the Chapter I prohibition
  • the Chapter II prohibition
  • investigation
  • enforcement
  • offences
  • vertical agreements and land agreements
  • regulators
  • confidentiality and immunity from defamation
  • investigations in relation to the EC Treaty Articles 81 and 82
  • appeals to the Competition Commission
  • community aspects of competition law, includes:
  • common principles
  • restriction or distortion of competition
  • abuse of dominant position
  • procedural aspects
  • intellectual property
  • fair trading, includes:
  • the Director General of Fair Trading
  • the Consumer Protection Advisory Committee
  • powers to restrain unfair conduct
  • miscellaneous provision
  • legislative controls
  • general controls
  • excise restrictions
  • particular trades
  • shops
  • deregulation of shops
  • Sunday trading
  • promotion of trade and assistance to industry
  • promotion of trade
  • assistance to industry
  • Development Council legislation
  • the Rural Development Commission
  • regional development agencies
  • statistics
  • information and census
  • offences and disclosure
  • administration and notices
  • trade unions, includes:
  • definition and legal status
  • trade union rules
  • trade union property
  • trade union administration
  • trade union elections
  • industrial action ballots
  • merger, secession and dissolution
  • trade union membership
  • rights against employers in relation to trade union membership
  • employers’ associations
  • definition and legal status
  • property and administration
  • merger and change of name
  • industrial relations, includes:
  • collective bargaining
  • statutory recognition procedure
  • collective agreements
  • procedure for handling redundancies
  • rights of employee representatives
  • removal of statutory protection for the closed shop
  • settlement of industrial disputes
  • industrial democracy and worker participation
  • industrial action, includes:
  • potential liabilities for industrial action
  • trade dispute immunity
  • potential liabilities for picketing
  • liability of trade union for industrial action
  • statutory restrictions on industrial action
  • emergency powers
  • employment tribunals and other legal proceedings, includes:
  • employment appeal tribunal
  • civil courts
  • the certification officer

 

War and Armed Conflict

  • legality and the use of force
  • war and neutrality
  • declaration and termination of war
  • prerogative powers in wartime
  • neutrality and illegal activities
  • international agreements and conventions, includes:
  • Geneva Red Cross conventions
  • war crimes and crimes against humanity
  • biological, chemical, nuclear and other weapons and mines
  • wartime emergency legislation, includes:
  • compensation for requisition etc
  • war damage
  • other emergency control of transport and energy
  • civil protection, includes:
  • risk assessments and emergency plans
  • exercise of ministerial powers
  • alien enemies, trade and property, includes:
  • trading with the enemy
  • enemy industrial property
  • distribution of enemy property
  • war pensions, includes:
  • war pensions for members of the armed forces and dependants
  • other war pensions
  • reviews, disqualification and forfeiture
  • appeals

 

Water

  • legislation and administration
  • European Union legislation
  • domestic legislation
  • central administration
  • miscellaneous and supplemental provisions
  • the sea and seashore
  • the high seas and territorial waters
  • the seashore
  • inland waters
  • interests in water
  • ownership of the soil
  • riparian rights
  • subterranean water
  • flood defence etc; flood damage, includes:
  • coast protection
  • flood defence and land drainage
  • damage by water
  • organisation of the water industry, includes:
  • regulatory arrangements
  • water undertakers
  • licensed water suppliers
  • enforcement and insolvency
  • information and offences; in general
  • general land and works powers, includes:
  • acquisition and disposal of land
  • powers to carry out works
  • powers of entry
  • interference with and protection for works and undertakings
  • mineral rights
  • water resources, includes:
  • assessment of water resources
  • control of abstraction and impounding
  • water resources charges etc
  • reservoirs
  • water shortages
  • water supply, includes:
  • European Union legislation
  • duties of water undertakers in relation to supply
  • powers and duties of local authorities in relation to water supplies
  • fluoridation
  • water charges and metering
  • sale and supply of bottled water
  • pollution of water, includes:
  • pollution at common law
  • control of pollution under EU legislation
  • control of pollution under domestic legislation
  • amenity, recreation and navigation, includes:
  • the water environment
  • general duties as to water amenity and recreation

 

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