8.—(1) The Museums and Galleries Act 1992 shall be amended as follows.
(2) In section 6(6) the words “Lord President of the Council or the” shall be omitted.
(3) In section 9—
(a)in subsection (9), the definition of “the appropriate Minister” shall be omitted; and
(b)in subsections (1) and (2) and (5) to (7) for the words “appropriate Minister”, in each place where they occur, there shall be substituted “Secretary of State”.
(4) In Schedule 8, paragraph 2 shall be omitted.