The European Communities (Designation) Order 1988

Statutory Instruments

1988 No. 785

EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES

The European Communities (Designation) Order 1988

Made

27th April 1988

Laid before Parliament

5th May 1988

Coming into force

27th May 1988

At the Court of Saint James, the 27th day of April 1988

Present,

The Counsellors of State in Council

Whereas Her Majesty, in pursuance of the Regency Acts 1937 to 1953, was pleased, by Letters Patent dated the 28th day of March 1988, to delegate to the six Counsellors of State therein named or any two or more of them full power and authority during the period of Her Majesty’s absence from the United Kingdom to summon and hold on Her Majesty’s behalf Her Privy Council and to signify thereat Her Majesty’s approval for anything for which Her Majesty’s approval in Council is required:

Now, therefore, Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother, and His Royal Highness The Prince Charles, Prince of Wales, being authorised thereto by the said Letters Patent, and in pursuance of the powers conferred on Her Majesty by section 2(2) of the European Communities Act 1972(1), and by and with the advice of Her Majesty’s Privy Council, do on Her Majesty’s behalf order, and it is hereby ordered, as follows:—

Citation and commencement

1.  This Order may be cited as the European Communities (Designation) Order 1988 and shall come into force on 27th May 1988.

Designation of Ministers or departments

2.—(1) For the purposes of section 2(2) of the European Communities Act 1972 the Ministers or government departments specified in column 1 of the Schedule to this Order are hereby designated in relation to the matters respectively specified in column 2 of that Schedule.

(2) Where a Minister or government department is designated in relation to any item in column 2 of the said Schedule, then, for the purposes of the said section 2(2), that Minister or government department is also hereby designated in relation to anything supplemental or incidental to the matters specified in that item.

(3) Where more than one Minister or government department is designated by this Order in relation to any matter, the designation has effect as respects the making of regulations by any of them or by more than one of them acting jointly.

(4) Regulations made by a Northern Ireland department in pursuance of this Order shall form part of the law of Northern Ireland and not of any other part of the United Kingdom.

G. I. de Deney

Clerk of the Privy Council

SCHEDULE

(1) Ministers or departments	(2) Matters in relation to which the Ministers or departments are designated
The Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food and any one or more Secretaries of State	Protective measures in respect of radioactive contamination of foodstuffs and feedingstuffs following a nuclear accident or other radiological emergency.
The Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, The Treasury and any one or more Secretaries of State	Measures relating to the requirement for an assessment of the impact on the environment of projects likely to have significant effects on the environment.
The Secretary of State	The regulation and control of the use of sewage sludge in agriculture.
The Secretary of State	Measures relating to European Economic Interest Groupings and their members.
The Secretary of State	The control of air pollution.
Any Northern Ireland department	The preceding items in this column.

Explanatory Note

(This note is not part of the Order)

This is a further Order in the series of Orders designating the Minister who, and departments which, may exercise powers to make regulations conferred by section 2(2) of the European Communities Act 1972 and specifying the matters in relation to which those powers may be exercised.

(1)

1972 c. 68.