PART IIMODIFICATIONS
2.—(1) The Tribunals and Inquiries Act 1992(1) is amended as follows.
(2) In each of sections 2(1) and (2), 4(1) to (4), (6) and (7) and 5(3)(c), for “Lord Advocate” wherever those words appear there is substituted “Scottish Ministers”.
(3) In section 4–
(a)in subsection (2) after “Minister” there is inserted “or Ministers”; and
(b)in subsection (7)–
(i)for “those Ministers”, there is substituted “(a) the Lord Chancellor”;
(ii)after “Parliament” there is inserted “, and (b) the Scottish Ministers shall lay the report before the Scottish Parliament,”; and
(iii)before “they”, there is inserted “he or”.
(1)
1992 c. 53; the functions of the Lord Advocate under this Act were transferred to the Secretary of State by S.I. 1999/678.