An Act to enable certain services of the Crown to be financed by means of trading funds established in pursuance of orders made by the responsible Minister with Treasury concurrence; to make consequential provision (in the event of a trading fund being established for the Mint) as to sums received by, or due from, the Treasury in respect of the coinage; and to amend the Coinage Act 1971 in respect of the establishment and operations of the Mint.
Citation
1973 c. 63
Dates
Royal assent
25 October 1973
Text of statute as originally enacted
Text of the Government Trading Funds Act 1973 as in force today (including any amendments) within the United Kingdom, from legislation.gov.uk.
United Kingdom legislation
Government Trading Act 1990
Act of Parliament
Parliament of the United Kingdom
Long title
An Act to amend the Government Trading Funds Act 1973 and section 5 of the Exchequer and Audit Departments Act 1921 and to repeal the Borrowing (Control and Guarantees) Act 1946.
Citation
1990 c. 30
Dates
Royal assent
26 July 1990
Other legislation
Amends
Government Trading Funds Act 1973
Exchequer and Audit Departments Act 1921
Repeals/revokes
Borrowing (Control and Guarantees) Act 1946
Text of statute as originally enacted
Text of the Government Trading Act 1990 as in force today (including any amendments) within the United Kingdom, from legislation.gov.uk.
A trading fund is an executive agency, government department or often simply a part of a department, that enables the department to handle its own revenues and expenses separately from overall government finances and more like a business, as opposed to having to obtain funding from the government's legislature and feeding income back into its treasury. A Hong Kong parliamentary study of trading funds in the UK and Hong Kong describes their nature and purpose as follows:
A trading fund is a financial and accounting framework established by law to enable a government department, or part of a department, to adopt certain accounting and management practices common in the private sector. [The fund] operates on a self-financing basis and does not need to regularly seek funding from the legislature to finance its daily operations after its establishment... the intention [is that such] an institutional change would provide the appropriate flexibility in resource management and nurture a new working culture to improve services in terms of both quality and cost-effectiveness.[1]
Each country has its own specific laws and regulations controlling the establishment and use of trading funds. Trading funds in the UK were initially established through the Government Trading Funds Act 1973 (c. 63), and modified by the Government Trading Act 1990 (c. 30),[2] along with other modifications through finance legislation.[3] In 1993, Hong Kong followed suit with its Trading Funds Ordinance of that year.[4] Establishment and operation of a Hong Kong trading fund is subject to decisions made by the Legislative Council on the recommendation of the Financial Secretary.
The significance of a UK trading fund is that it has standing authority under the 1973 Act to use its receipts to meet its expenses or outgoings. Some trading funds have, as their main function, the collection and supply of information to both public and private sectors; others do not. Also in the UK, a trading fund can only be established with the agreement of HM Treasury. To establish a fund, more than 50% of the trading fund's revenue will consist of receipts for goods and services provided by the department, and where the responsible minister and the Treasury are satisfied that the setting up of the trading fund will lead to "improved efficiency and effectiveness in management of operations".[5]
^Lam, Kitty. Operation of Trading Funds. Research and Library Services Division, Legislative Council Secretariat, Central, Hong Kong. Report RP02/02-03. 18 February 2003. Retrieved June 19, 2017.
^"Government Trading Funds Act 1973".
^"Government Trading Funds Act 1973 s1".
^Government of Hong Kong, Cap. 430: Trading Funds Ordinance, 12 March 1993
^Government Trading Funds Act 1973 s 1(1)(b), as amended by the Government Trading Act 1990. See [1].
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