The European Communities (Designation) (No. 4) Order 1992

Statutory Instruments

1992 No. 2870

EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES

The European Communities (Designation) (No. 4) Order 1992

Made

17th November 1992

Laid before Parliament

18th November 1992

Coming into force

9th December 1992

At the Court at Buckingham Palace, the 17th day of November 1992

Present,

The Queen’s Most Excellent Majesty in Council

Her Majesty, in exercise of the powers conferred on Her by section 2(2) of the European Communities Act 1972(1), is pleased, by and with the advice of Her Privy Council, to order, and it is hereby ordered, as follows:

Citation and commencement

1.  This Order may be cited as the European Communities (Designation) (No. 4) Order 1992 and shall come into force on 9th December 1992.

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 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 related to the matters specified in that item.

(3) Where both a Minister and one or more government departments are designated 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, that are not made jointly with any Minister, shall form part of the law of Northern Ireland and not of any other part of the United Kingdom.

(5) The designation which provides that the Secretary of State shall be designated in relation to measures relating to the prevention, reduction and elimination of pollution caused by waste shall, to the extent that it relates to pollution caused by waste from the titanium dioxide industry, supersede the designation made in relation to those matters by the European Communities (Designation) (No. 2) Order 1990(2).

N. H. Nicholls

Clerk of the Privy Council

Article 2

SCHEDULE

(1)	(2)
Ministers or departments	Matters in relation to which the Ministers or departments are designated
The Secretary of State	Measures relating to the drawing-up, auditing and publication of accounts by insurance undertakings
The Secretary of State	Measures relating to the prevention reduction and elimination of pollution caused by waste
The Secretary of State	Measures relating to the conservation of natural habitats and of wild fauna and flora
Any Northern Ireland Department	The preceding items in this column
The Secretary of State	Measures relating to general product safety
The Secretary of State	Measures relating to access to public telecommunication systems
The Secretary of State	Measures relating to supplementary protection certificates for medicinal products
The Secretary of State	Measures relating to claims made under or in connection with contracts or transactions the performance of which has been affected by measures decided upon pursuant to Resolution 661 (1990) of the United Nations Security Council and related resolutions
The Treasury	Measures relating to the publication of information about developments in the sphere of activity of a company or undertaking, whose securities are admitted to trading on a market, which may affect the price of that company’s or undertaking’s securities
The Secretary of State	The grant of compulsory licences under a patent where demand for the patented product in the United Kingdom is met by imports from other Member States of the Communities

Explanatory Note

(This note is not part of the Order)

This is a further Order in the series designating Ministers 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.

Resolution 661 (1990) referred to in the Schedule was adopted by the United Nations Security Council as a result of the invasion and occupation of Kuwait by Iraq. Copies of that resolution and of related resolutions may be obtained from the United Nations Information Centre, Ship House, 20 Buckingham Gate, London SW1E 6LB.

(1)

1972 c. 68.

(2)

S.I. 1990/1304.