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The Films Co-Production Agreements (Amendment) Order 2009

Made

17th November 2009

Coming into force

1st January 2010

At the Court at Buckingham Palace, the 17th day of November 2009

Present,

The Queen´s Most Excellent Majesty in Council

Her Majesty, in exercise of the powers conferred by paragraph 4(5) of Schedule 1 to the Films Act 1985(1), is pleased, by and with the advice of Her Privy Council, to make the following Order:

Citation and commencement

1. This order may be cited as the Films Co-Production Agreements (Amendment) Order 2009 and shall come into force on 1st January 2010.

Amendment to the Films Co-Production Agreements Order 1985

2. The Films Co-Production Agreements Order 1985(2) shall be amended by substituting for the schedule the following-

"SCHEDULE

Country Date of Agreement Command Paper
Australia 12th June 1990 Cm. 1758
Canada 12th September 1975 Cmnd. 6380
9th July 1985 Cmnd 9887
5th July 1991 Cm. 1807
France 8th November 1994 Cm. 2992
India 5th December 2005 Cm.7423

Jamaica

Morocco

23rd April 2007

12th October 2009

Cm. 7168

Cm. 7670

New Zealand 14th April 1993 Cm. 2638
South Africa 24th May 2006 Cm. 6866".

Revocation

3. The Films Co-Production Agreements (Amendment) Order 2008(3) is revoked.

Judith Simpson

Clerk of the Privy Council

EXPLANATORY NOTE

(This note is not part of the Order)

The Films Co-Production Agreements Order 1985 ("the principal Order") provides that films made in accordance with the agreements between the Government of the United Kingdom and the Governments of other countries listed in the Schedule are to be treated as British films for the purposes of Schedule 1 to the Films Act 1985. This Order extends the list of agreements scheduled to the principal Order to include an agreement with Morocco of 12th October 2009 (Cm. 7670). The agreement with Morocco was laid before Parliament on 4th November 2009 and is available from the Foreign and Commonwealth Office website: www.fco.gov.uk. This Order also revokes a previous Order which amended the Schedule to the principal Order and has now been superseded.

(1)

1985 c.21. Paragraph 4(5) was substituted by the Films (Definition of "British Film") Order 2006 (S.I. 2006/643). Back [1]

(2)

S.I. 1985/960, as amended by the Order mentioned in article 3. Back [2]



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