This Order, made under the Scotland Act 1998, provides for certain functions of a Minister of the Crown, so far as they are exercisable by him in or as regards Scotland, to be exercisable by the Scottish Ministers instead of by the Minister concerned.

Those functions are regulation making powers of the Secretary of State for the prescribing of the form of records to be kept by licensed dog breeding and rearing establishments and for prescribing information, in addition to the name of the licensed establishment where the dog was born, which requires to be displayed on the identifying tags or badges of dogs sold by such establishments.

Article 3 provides for certain general modifications of enactments and related matters in consequence of that transfer and article 4 makes transitional and saving provision.