Article 3
1.—(1) This Schedule shall apply to the Home-Grown Cereals Authority.
(2) In this Schedule–
“the 1965 Act” means the Cereals Marketing Act 1965((1);
“the 1970 Act” means the Agriculture Act 1970(2)
“the 1986 Act” means the Agriculture Act 1986(3)
“the Authority” means the Home-Grown Cereals Authority established under section 1 of the 1965 Act.
2.—(1) Any function exercisable in relation to the Authority by the Secretary of State for Scotland acting alone shall instead be exercisable by the Scottish Ministers.
(2) Any function which is–
(a)specifically exercisable in relation to the Authority; and
(b)exercisable by the Secretary of State for Scotland acting jointly with other Ministers of the Crown,
shall instead be exercisable by the Scottish Ministers and those other Ministers acting jointly.
(3) The exercise of any function under section 107 of the Agriculture Act 1970 by the Scottish Ministers shall not require the approval of a Minister of the Crown.
(4) This paragraph does not apply to any function to which paragraph 3 applies.
3.—(1) This paragraph applies to functions under sections 7, 13, 16 and 23 of, and Schedule 3 to, the 1965 Act, and section 6 of the 1986 Act.
(2) The Secretary of State for Scotland is to cease to be among the Ministers who, acting jointly, may exercise any function to which this paragraph applies.
(3) Any function to which this paragraph applies shall be exercisable only with the consent of the Scottish Ministers, and section 88(2) of the Act shall not apply in relation to any such function.
4.—(1) Without prejudice to the generality of the modifications made by paragraph 2, the consequential modification made by sub-paragraph (2) below shall have effect.
(2) In section 108(5) of the 1970 Act, after the word “section” there is inserted “the words “with the approval of the Treasury” and”.