(1)Without prejudice to the foregoing provisions of this Act, the functions of each of Scottish Enterprise and Highlands and Islands Enterprise shall include—
(a)a power to do anything in connection with unemployment, training for employment or employment which it is authorised to do by a Minister of the Crown; and
(b)a duty to do anything in connection with unemployment, training for employment or employment which it is required to do by or under a direction given to it by a Minister of the Crown.
(2)Scottish Enterprise and Highlands and Islands Enterprise shall each—
(a)from time to time submit to the Secretary of State particulars of what it proposes to do for the purpose of carrying out the functions conferred or imposed upon it by or under subsection (1) above; and
(b)ensure that all its activities in relation to those functions are in accordance with such proposals submitted by it to the Secretary of State as have been approved by him and with such modifications (if any) of those proposals as are notified to the body in question by him.
(3)The power of a Minister of the Crown by virtue of subsection (1) above to authorise or direct Scottish Enterprise or Highlands and Islands Enterprise to do anything shall include the power to delegate powers conferred on him by any enactment; but nothing in this section shall authorise any Minister of the Crown to delegate a power to make subordinate legislation (within the meaning of the M1Interpretation Act 1978).]
Textual Amendments
F1S. 14A inserted (30.8.1993) by 1993 c. 19, s. 47(5); S.I. 1993/1908, art. 2(1), Sch.1.
Modifications etc. (not altering text)
C1S. 14A amended (1.7.1999) as to functions conferred on a Minister of the Crown by S.I. 1999/1750, art. 4, Sch. 3
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