The Scotland Act 1998 (Agency Arrangements) (Specification) Order 2000

Made15th March 2000

Laid before Parliament23rd March 2000

Laid before the Scottish Parliament23rd March 2000

Coming into force1st May 2000

At the Court at Buckingham Palace, the 15th day of March 2000

Present,

The Queen’s Most Excellent Majesty in Council

Her Majesty, in exercise of the powers conferred upon Her by sections 93(3) and 113 of the Scotland Act 19981, and of all other powers enabling Her in that behalf, is pleased, by and with the advice of Her Privy Council, to order, and it is hereby ordered, as follows:

Citation, commencement and interpretation1.

(1)

This Order may be cited as the Scotland Act 1998 (Agency Arrangements) (Specification) Order 2000 and shall come into force on 1st May 2000.

(2)

In this Order “the 1998 Act” means the Scotland Act 1998.

Specification of functions2.

(1)

The functions exercisable by the Scottish Ministers under the enactments mentioned in the Schedule to this Order are hereby specified for the purposes of section 93(1) of the 1998 Act.

(2)

The functions of the Scottish Ministers in respect of Creutzfeld-Jakob Disease surveillance and related activities are hereby specified for the purposes of section 93(1) of the 1998 Act.

A.K. Galloway

Clerk of the Privy Council

SCHEDULEFUNCTIONS EXERCISABLE BY THE SCOTTISH MINISTERS

1.

Section 109(1) of the Medicines Act 19682.

2.

Section 7(2A) of the Wildlife and Countryside Act 19813 (function of determining a charge and charging for registration).

3.

Regulation 3(1) of the Wildlife and Countryside (Registration and Ringing of Certain Captive Birds) Regulations 19824 (function of maintaining a register of birds).

4.

Regulation 3(2) of the Wildlife and Countryside (Registration and Ringing of Certain Captive Birds) Regulations 1982 (function of issuing form of application for registration).

5.

Regulation 3(3) of the Wildlife and Countryside (Registration and Ringing of Certain Captive Birds) Regulations 1982 (function of registering birds if satisfied as to ringing).

6.

Regulation 4(2)(d)(ii)5 of the Wildlife and Countryside (Registration and Ringing of Certain Captive Birds) Regulations 1982 (function of receiving written notice of a change of address at which a bird is to be kept).

7.

Regulation 5(1) of the Wildlife and Countryside (Registration and Ringing of Certain Captive Birds) Regulations 19826 (function of issuing rings).

8.

Regulation 5(2) of the Wildlife and Countryside (Registration and Ringing of Certain Captive Birds) Regulations 1982 (function of issuing form of declaration of ringing).

(This note is not part of the Order)

This Order specifies certain functions of the Scottish Ministers for the purposes of section 93(1) of the Scotland Act 1998. Section 93(1) allows a Minister of the Crown to make arrangements for any of his specified functions to be exercised on his behalf by the Scottish Ministers and allows the Scottish Ministers to make arrangements forany of their specified functions to be exercised on their behalf by a Minister of the Crown.

The functions of the Scottish Ministers which are specified by this Order are–

(a)

those exercisable by the Scottish Ministers under the enactments specified in the Schedule to this Order, which are functions relating to enforcement of provisions relating to medicine and the registration and ringing of certain captive birds; and

(b)

non-statutory functions relating to Creutzfeld-Jakob Disease surveillance.