For the purposes of section 2(2) of the Act, the Minister or government departments specified in column (1) of Schedule 1 to this Order are designated in relation to the matters specified in column (2) of the Schedule.

Where a Minister or government department is designated by this Order in relation to any matter, for which any other Minister or government department has been designated by this or any other Order for the purposes of section 2(2) of the Act, any of them may make regulations and, if regulations are made by more than one, they may do so jointly.