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STATUTORY INSTRUMENTS

2001 No. 2881

CUSTOMS AND EXCISE

The Free Zone (Liverpool) Designation Order 2001

  Made 9th August 2001 
  Coming into force 10th August 2001 

The Treasury, in exercise of the powers conferred on them by section 100A of the Customs and Excise Management Act 1979[1] and all other powers enabling them in that behalf, hereby make the following Order:

Citation and commencement
     1. This Order may be cited as The Free Zone (Liverpool) Designation Order 2001 and shall come into force on 10th August 2001.

Designation of area as free zone
     2.  - (1) An area of 383.28 hectares, in the County of Merseyside, comprising 269.56 hectares in the Metropolitan Borough of Sefton, 77.87 hectares in the Metropolitan Borough of Wirral and 35.85 hectares within the City of Liverpool, shown enclosed by a red line on a map (in this article referred to as "the map"), being of a scale of 1:2500, and signed by a Collector of Customs and Excise, shall be a free zone.

    (2) The map shall be kept by the Commissioners at their Headquarters, New King's Beam House, 22 Upper Ground, London SE1 9PJ and a copy thereof at the offices of the responsible authority.

    (3) The map or the copy thereof may, on application, be inspected by members of the public at reasonable hours without charge.

Appointment of responsible authority
     3. The responsible authority for the free zone shall be the Mersey Docks and Harbour Company whose Head Office is at Pier Head, Liverpool.

Period of validity of Order
     4. This Order shall have effect for a period of 10 years from the date of coming into force.

Conditions imposed on responsible authority
     5. The responsible authority shall - 

Health and safety
     6. Without prejudice to the responsibilities of persons occupying premises within the free zone, the responsible authority shall ensure that the working conditions within the free zone are safe and without risk to the health and safety of persons employed by the Commissioners and shall comply with any requirements concerning health and safety imposed by any competent authority.


Graham Stringer

John Heppell
Two of the Lords Commissioners of Her Majesty's Treasury

9th August 2001


EXPLANATORY NOTE

(This note is not part of the Order)


This Order replaces the Free Zone (Liverpool) Designation Order 1991 (S.I. 1991 No. 1738). With effect from 10th August 2001, it designates an area of 383.28 hectares, in the County of Merseyside, comprising 269.56 hectares in the Metropolitan Borough of Sefton, 77.87 hectares in the Metropolitan Borough of Wirral and 35.85 hectares within the City of Liverpool as a free zone, appoints the responsible authority and imposes obligations upon that authority relating to the operation of the zone.

Notes:

 [1] 1979 c. 2; section 100A was introduced by section 8 of, and Schedule 4 to, the Finance Act 1984 (c. 43).back


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 © Crown copyright 2001

Prepared 16 August 2001

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