Statutory Instruments
2001 No. 3917 (S. 20)
CONSTITUTIONAL LAW
DEVOLUTION, SCOTLAND
The Scotland Act 1998 (Agency Arrangements) (Specification) Order 2001
Made
11th December 2001
Laid before Parliament
Laid before the Scottish Parliament
7th January 2002
Coming into force
28th January 2002
At the Court at Buckingham Palace, the 11th day of December 2001
Present,
The Queen’s Most Excellent Majesty in Council
Her Majesty, in exercise of the powers conferred by sections 93(3) and 113 of the Scotland Act 1998( 1 ), and of all other powers enabling Her in that behalf, is pleased, by and with the advice of Her Privy Council, to order, and it is hereby ordered, as follows:
Citation and commencement
1. This Order may be cited as the Scotland Act 1998 (Agency Arrangements) (Specification) Order 2001 and shall come into force on 28th January 2002.
Specification of functions
2. The functions of the Scottish Ministers described in the Schedule to this Order are hereby specified for the purposes of section 93(1) of the Scotland Act 1998.
A. K. Galloway
Clerk of the Privy Council
Article 2
SCHEDULE FUNCTIONS OF THE SCOTTISH MINISTERS
1. The functions conferred on the Scottish Ministers by the Environmental Protection (Controls on Ozone-Depleting Substances) Regulations 2001( 2 ).
S.I. . Those Regulations are deemed to be a pre-commencement enactment for the purposes of the Scotland Act 1998 (See regulation 2(3)). The functions of the Secretary of State under those Regulations, insofar as they do not relate to reserved matters, transferred to the Scottish Ministers by virtue of Section 53 of that Act.