Statutory Instrument 1992 No. 1711

The European Communities (Designation) (No. 2) Order 1992

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1992 No. 1711

EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES

The European Communities (Designation) (No. 2) Order 1992

At the Court at Buckingham Palace, the 15th day of July 1992

Present,

The Queen's Most Excellent Majesty in Council

Her Majesty, in exercise of the powers conferred on Her by section 2(2) of the European Communities Act 1972^[1], is pleased, by and with the advice of Her Privy Council, to order, and it is hereby ordered, as follows:

Citation and commencement
    1.    This Order may be cited as the European Communities (Designation) (No. 2) Order 1992 and shall come into force on 13th August 1992.

Designation of Ministers or departments
    2.—(1)  For the purposes of section 2(2) of the European Communities Act 1972 the Ministers or government departments specified in column 1 of the Schedule to this Order are hereby designated in relation to the matters specified in column 2 of that Schedule.

    (2)  Where a Minister or government department is designated in relation to any item in column 2 of the said Schedule, then, for the purposes of the said section 2(2), that Minister or government department is also hereby designated in relation to anything supplemental or related to the matters specified in that item.

    (3)  Where more than one Minister or government department is designated in relation to any matter, the designation has effect as respects the making of regulations by any of them or by more than one of them acting jointly.

    (4)  Regulations made by a Northern Ireland department in pursuance of this Order, that are not made jointly with any Minister, shall form part of the law of Northern Ireland and not of any other part of the United Kingdom.

    (5)  The designation which provides that the Secretary of State shall be designated in relation to the regulation of the type, description, construction or equipment of agricultural or forestry tractors and of their components, and in particular any type approval scheme for such tractors, shall supersede the designation made in relation to the same matters by the European Communities (Designation) Order 1975^[2].

G. I. de Deney

Clerk of the Privy Council

[1] 1972 c. 68. back

[2] S.I. No. 1975/427; which provided that the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food and any Northern Ireland department or the Head of any such department should be designated together with the Secretary of State. back

Explanatory Note