The Deregulation and Contracting Out Act 1994 (c. 40) is an Act of Parliament. It introduced wide-ranging measures with aims including reducing burdens on people in

trade Trade involves the transfer of goods and services from one person or entity to another, often in exchange for money. Economists refer to a system or network that allows trade as a market. Traders generally negotiate through a medium of cr ...

created by previous acts such as the Shops Act 1950, changes in transport legislation, changes in

utility In economics, utility is a measure of a certain person's satisfaction from a certain state of the world. Over time, the term has been used with at least two meanings. * In a normative context, utility refers to a goal or objective that we wish ...

legislation, and changes in financial services, among others. It also contained so called

Henry VIII clause A statutory instrument (SI) is the principal form in which delegated legislation is made in Great Britain. Statutory instruments are governed by the Statutory Instruments Act 1946.Regulatory Reform Act 2001 The Regulatory Reform Act 2001 (c.6) is an Act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. It replaced the Deregulation and Contracting Out Act 1994. It removed some of the constraints on Deregulation Orders under the 1994 Act, by providing wider po ...

. Part II of the Act, which remains in force, includes a general power to

outsource Outsourcing is a business practice in which company, companies use external providers to carry out business processes that would otherwise be handled internally. Outsourcing sometimes involves transferring employees and assets from one firm to ...

"any function of a Minister or office-holder" if the minister "by order so provides".

Repeals

The following acts were entirely

repeal A repeal (O.F. ''rapel'', modern ''rappel'', from ''rapeler'', ''rappeler'', revoke, ''re'' and ''appeler'', appeal) is the removal or reversal of a law. There are two basic types of repeal; a repeal with a re-enactment is used to replace the law ...

ed by this act: * Shops Act 1950 * Shops (Airports) Act 1962 * Shops (Early Closing Days) Act 1965 The following acts were partially repealed by this Act: *

Merchant Shipping Act 1894 The Merchant Shipping Act 1894 ( 57 & 58 Vict. c. 60) was an act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom that consolidated enactments relating to merchant shipping in the United Kingdom. Background In the United Kingdom, acts of Parliamen ...

( 57 & 58 Vict. c. 60) * Licensing Act 1964 *

Transport Act 1968 The Transport Act 1968 (c. 73) was an act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. The main provisions made changes to the structure of nationally owned bus companies, created passenger transport authorities and executives to take over public ...

Post Office Act 1969 The Post Office Act 1969 (c. 48) is an act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom that changed the General Post Office from a department of state to a public corporation, known as the Post Office. It also abolished the office of Postmaster Gene ...

Local Government Act 1972 The Local Government Act 1972 (c. 70) is an act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom that reformed local government in England and Wales on 1 April 1974. It was one of the most significant acts of Parliament to be passed by the Heath Gov ...

Employment Agencies Act 1973 The Employment Agencies Act 1973 (c. 35) is a United Kingdom act of Parliament and part of a wider body of UK agency worker law. It regulates the conduct of employment agencies which recruit and manage temporary and permanent labour. It applies ...

Fair Trading Act 1973 The Fair Trading Act 1973 (c. 41) is an act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom The Parliament of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland is the supreme legislative body of the United Kingdom, and may also legislate f ...

Local Government (Scotland) Act 1973 The Local Government (Scotland) Act 1973 (c. 65) is an Act of Parliament (UK), act of Parliament of the United Kingdom that altered local government of Scotland, local government in Scotland on 16 May 1975. The act followed and largely impleme ...

* Road Traffic Act 1974 *

House of Commons Disqualification Act 1975 The House of Commons Disqualification Act 1975 (c. 24) is an act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom that prohibits certain categories of people from becoming members of the House of Commons. It is an updated version of similar older act ...

Employment Protection Act 1975 The Employment Protection Act 1975 (c. 71) (EPA 1975) was an act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. The long title was, Outline Together with the Trade Union and Labour Relations Act 1974, these acts constituted the Labour Party' ...

* Industrial Relations (Northern Ireland) Order 1976 *

Employment Protection (Consolidation) Act 1978 The Employment Protection (Consolidation) Act 1978 (c. 44) was an Act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom which formed a central part of UK labour law. It consolidated two earlier pieces of legislation, the Contracts of Employment Act 196 ...

Merchant Shipping Act 1979 A merchant is a person who trades in goods produced by other people, especially one who trades with foreign countries. Merchants have been known for as long as humans have engaged in trade and commerce. Merchants and merchant networks operated i ...

* Competition Act 1980 *

Local Government, Planning and Land Act 1980 The Local Government, Planning and Land Act 1980 (c. 65) imposed tendering requirements on local authorities in relation to works contracts and was responsible for the establishment of development corporations, including the London Docklands De ...

Public Passenger Vehicles Act 1981 In public relations and communication science, publics are groups of individual people, and the public (a.k.a. the general public) is the totality of such groupings. This is a different concept to the sociological concept of the ''Öffentlichkei ...

* Employment (Miscellaneous Provisions) (Northern Ireland) Order 1981 * Transport Act 1982 *

Telecommunications Act 1984 The Telecommunications Act 1984 (c. 12) is an Act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. The rules for the industry are now contained in the Communications Act 2003. Provisions The provisions of the act included the following: * Privatising ...

Road Traffic Regulation Act 1984 The Road Traffic Regulation Act 1984 (c. 27) is an Act of Parliament (UK), Act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom, which provided powers to regulate or restrict traffic on roads in Great Britain, in the interest of safety. It superseded som ...

London Regional Transport Act 1984 London is the Capital city, capital and List of urban areas in the United Kingdom, largest city of both England and the United Kingdom, with a population of in . London metropolitan area, Its wider metropolitan area is the largest in Wester ...

* Cinemas Act 1985 *

Insolvency Act 1985 In accounting, insolvency is the state of being unable to pay the debts, by a person or company (debtor), at maturity; those in a state of insolvency are said to be ''insolvent''. There are two forms: cash-flow insolvency and balance-sheet inso ...

Transport Act 1985 The Transport Act 1985 (c. 67) was an act of Parliament in the United Kingdom. It introduced privatised and deregulated bus services throughout Great Britain and came into effect in October 1986. The act was created as a response to growing ...

Weights and Measures Act 1985 Weights and Measures Acts are acts of the British Parliament determining the regulation of weights and measures. It also refers to similar royal and parliamentary acts of the Kingdoms of England and Scotland and the medieval Welsh states. ...

Gas Act 1986 The Gas Act 1986 (c. 44) created the framework for privatisation of the gas supply industry in Great Britain. The legislation replaced the British Gas Corporation State-owned enterprise, (government or state ownership) with British Gas plc Privat ...

Building Societies Act 1986 The Building Societies Act 1986 (c. 53) is an act of Parliament of the United Kingdom governing building societies A building society is a financial institution owned by its members as a mutual organization, which offers banking institutio ...

Financial Services Act 1986 The Financial Services Act 1986 (c. 60) was an Act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom passed by the government of Margaret Thatcher to regulate the financial services industry. The Act used a mixture of governmental regulation and self-regu ...

Income and Corporation Taxes Act 1988 The Income and Corporation Taxes Act 1988, also known as ICTA, was the foremost United Kingdom Act of Parliament concerned with taxation until the Income Tax Act 2007 and the Corporation Tax Act 2010. ICTA was enacted in order to consolidate a ...

Road Traffic (Consequential Provisions) Act 1988 A road is a thoroughfare used primarily for movement of traffic. Roads differ from streets, whose primary use is local access. They also differ from stroads, which combine the features of streets and roads. Most modern roads are paved. The wo ...

Electricity Act 1989 The Electricity Act 1989 (c. 29) provided for the privatisation of the electricity supply industry in Great Britain, by replacing the Central Electricity Generating Board in England and Wales and by restructuring the South of Scotland Electricity ...

Employment Act 1989 Employment is a relationship between two parties regulating the provision of paid labour services. Usually based on a contract, one party, the employer, which might be a corporation, a not-for-profit organization, a co-operative, or any other ...

Companies Act 1989 A company, abbreviated as co., is a legal entity representing an association of legal people, whether natural, juridical or a mixture of both, with a specific objective. Company members share a common purpose and unite to achieve specific ...

Environmental Protection Act 1990 The Environmental Protection Act 1990 (c. 43) (initialism: EPA) is an Act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom that defines, within England and Wales and Scotland, the fundamental structure and authority for waste management and control of e ...

* Companies (Northern Ireland) Order 1990 * Charities Act 1992 * Electricity (Northern Ireland) Order 1992 *

Charities Act 1993 The Charities Act 2011 (c. 25) is a UK act of Parliament. It consolidated the bulk of the Charities Act 2006, outstanding provisions of the Charities Act 1993, and various other enactments. Repeals Legislation repealed in its entirety by t ...

Trade Union Reform and Employment Rights Act 1993 The Trade Union Reform and Employment Rights Act 1993 (c. 19) was a UK labour law that abolished the minimum wages set by sectors through 27 remaining wage councils. It also recast parts of the Employment Protection (Consolidation) Act 1978 and ...

Railways Act 1993 The Railways Act 1993 (c. 43) was introduced by John Major's Conservative government and passed on 5 November 1993. It provided for the restructuring of the British Railways Board (BRB), the public corporation that owned and operated the nation ...

Sunday Trading Act 1994 The Sunday Trading Act 1994 (c. 20) is an Act of Parliament (UK), act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom governing the right of Retailing, shops in England and Wales to trade on a Sunday. Buying and selling on Sunday had previously been ille ...

References

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* United Kingdom Acts of Parliament 1994 Economics of regulation Economic liberalization {{UK-statute-stub