The European Communities (Designation) Order 2006

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Designation of Minister or departments
     2. —(1) 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 that Schedule.

    (2) 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.

Designation of Northern Ireland departments
     3. —(1) For the purposes of section 2(2) of the Act, any Northern Ireland department is designated in relation to the matters specified in Schedule 2 to this Order.

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

    (3) Where any Northern Ireland department is designated by this Order in relation to any matter, for which any Minister or government department is 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.

Revocation of earlier designations
     4. The Orders specified in column (1) of Schedule 3 to this Order are revoked in so far as they relate to the designations listed in column (2) of that Schedule.


A.K. Galloway
Clerk of the Privy Council

[2] S.I. 1992/1711back

[3] S.I. 2005/2766back