
1 
This Order may be cited as the Central Office of Information TradingFund Order 1991, and shall come into force on 1st April 1991.
2 
In this Order—
 “the Act” means the Government Trading Funds Act 1973; and
 “the fund” means the trading fund established by this Order.
3 
As from 1st April 1991 for the operations of the department of thegovernment known as the Central Office of Information which aredescribed in Schedule 1 to this Order there shall be established atrading fund to be known as the COI Trading Fund.
4 
The National Loans Fund is hereby designated as the authorisedlender to the fund for the purposes of the Act.
5 
The maximum amount that may be issued to the fund under section 2Bof the Act shall be £100 million.
6 
The Crown assets and liabilities as at 1st April 1991 described ingeneral terms in Schedule 2 to this Order shall be appropriated asassets and liabilities of the fund at the values and amounts thereinspecified.
7 
Such part of the capital of the fund as amounts to£265,000 shall be treated as public dividend capital.
Norman Lamont
Chancellor of the Exchequer
27th March 1991We concur.
Sydney Chapman
Thomas Sackville
Two of the Lords Commissioners of Her Majesty’s Treasury
27th March 1991
SCHEDULE 1
Article 3

The operations of the Central Office of Information to be funded bythe fund are:—
(a) the procurement and supply of goods or services in connection withthe provision, through any medium of information, communication oreducation, of advertising, publicity or information;
(b) operations incidental, conducive or otherwise ancillary to theforegoing.

SCHEDULE 2
Article 6


 Assets Value (in £000)
Plant, machinery, fixtures, fittings, and equipment 1,770
Raw materials and consumables 281
Work in progress 18.962
Trade debtors 59.310
Prepayments and accrued income 2,500
Cash at bank and in hand 21,073
Liabilities Amount (in £000)
Trade creditors 73,583
Provision for taxation and social security 9,304
Accruals and deferred income to the value of £19,239,000 19,239