1.—(1) This Order may be cited as the Scotland Act 1998 (Modification of Functions) Order 1999 and shall come into force immediately before the principal appointed day(1).
(2) In this Order–
“the 1998 Act” means the Scotland Act 1998;
“agriculture” includes horticulture, fruit growing, seed growing, dairy farming and livestock breeding and keeping, the use of land as grazing land, meadow land, osier land, market gardens and nursery grounds and the use of land for woodlands where that is ancillary to the farming of land for other purposes and “agricultural” shall be construed accordingly;
“the Agriculture Acts” means any enactments for the time being in force relating to agriculture or agricultural products;
“Scottish fishing boat” means a fishing vessel which is registered in the register maintained under section 8 of the Merchant Shipping Act 1995(2) and whose entry in the register specifies a port in Scotland as the port to which the vessel is to be treated as belonging; to
“the Sea Fisheries Acts” means any enactments for the time being in force relating to sea-fishing, including any enactment relating to fishing in the sea for shellfish, salmon or migratory trout but excluding any Order in Council under section 111 of the 1998 Act.
(3) This Order is to be treated as a pre-commencement enactment for the purposes of the 1998 Act.
The principal appointed day is 1st July 1999 by virtue of the Scotland Act 1998 (Commencement) Order 1998 (S.I. 1998/3178).