(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.