Buying Agency Trading Fund Amendment Order 2026

UK New Legislation

Published April 1st, 2026

Detected March 10th, 2026

Summary

The Buying Agency Trading Fund (Amendment) Order 2026, effective April 1, 2026, amends the 1991 Order to rename the Crown Commercial Service Trading Fund to the Government Commercial Agency Trading Fund. This change also revokes a previous amending order from 2014.

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What changed

This Order, made on March 3, 2026, and effective April 1, 2026, formally changes the name of the Crown Commercial Service Trading Fund to the Government Commercial Agency Trading Fund. This amendment revises Article 3 of the Buying Agency Trading Fund Order 1991 and revokes the Buying Agency Trading Fund (Amendment) Order 2014, which had previously established the Crown Commercial Service Trading Fund name. The change is administrative and does not foresee any significant impact on the private, voluntary, or public sectors.

Regulated entities, primarily government agencies involved with the fund, should update their internal records and references to reflect the new name of the fund. No specific compliance actions or deadlines are mandated beyond updating internal documentation, as the change is primarily a renaming exercise. The explanatory note indicates no significant impact is foreseen, suggesting no immediate need for external stakeholder action beyond awareness of the name change.

What to do next

Update internal records to reflect the name change from Crown Commercial Service Trading Fund to Government Commercial Agency Trading Fund.

Source document (simplified)

Status:

This is the original version (as it was originally made). This item of legislation is currently only available in its original format.

Statutory Instruments

2026 No. 225

GOVERNMENT TRADING FUNDS

The Buying Agency Trading Fund (Amendment) Order 2026

Made

3rd March 2026

Laid before the House of Commons

9th March 2026

Coming into force

1st April 2026

The Minister for the Cabinet Office, in exercise of the powers conferred by sections 1(1) and 6(1) of the Government Trading Funds Act 1973(1), with the concurrence of the Treasury, makes the following Order:

Citation, commencement and extent

—(1) This Order may be cited as the Buying Agency Trading Fund (Amendment) Order 2026 and comes into force on 1st April 2026.

(2) An amendment or revocation made by this Order has the same extent as the provision amended or revoked.

Amendment of the Buying Agency Trading Fund Order 1991

In article 3 of the Buying Agency Trading Fund Order 1991(2) (establishment of the fund), for “the Crown Commercial Service Trading Fund” substitute “the Government Commercial Agency Trading Fund”.

Revocation of amending Order

The Buying Agency Trading Fund (Amendment) Order 2014(3) is revoked.

Chris Ward

Parliamentary Secretary

Cabinet Office

3rd March 2026

We concur

Gen Kitchen

Christian Wakeford

Two of the Lords Commissioners of His Majesty’s Treasury

24th February 2026

Explanatory Note

(This note is not part of the Order)

This Order amends the Buying Agency Trading Fund Order 1991.

Article 2 changes the name of the Crown Commercial Service Trading Fund to the Government Commercial Agency Trading Fund. This Fund had previously been known, successively, as the Buying Agency Trading Fund, the OGCbuying.solutions Trading Fund, the Buying Solutions Trading Fund and the Government Procurement Service Trading Fund.

Article 3 revokes the previous amending Order that changed the name of the Fund to the Crown Commercial Service Trading Fund.

A full impact assessment has not been produced for this instrument as no, or no significant, impact on the private, voluntary or public sector is foreseen.

(1) 1973 c. 63; section 1 was substituted by section 1(1) of the Government Trading Act 1990 (c. 30) and section 6(1) was substituted by section 2(3)(a) of that Act.

(2) S.I. 1991/875, relevant amending instruments are S.I. 2001/922, 2009/647, 2011/2208, 2014/561.

(3) S.I. 2014/561.