Welsh Statutory Instruments

2007 No. 1901 (W.162)

PUBLIC HEALTH, WALES

The Public Health (Ships) (Amendment) (Wales) Regulations 2007

Made

3 July 2007

Laid before the National Assembly for Wales

4 July 2007

Coming into force

1 August 2007

The Welsh Ministers, with the consent of the Commissioners for Her Majesty’s Revenue and Customs(1), makes the following Regulations in exercise of the powers conferred by section 13 of the Public Health (Control of Disease) Act 1984(2):

(1)

Section 13(4) of the Public Health (Control of Disease) Act 1984 provides that regulations require the consent of the Commissioners of Customs and Excise in so far as they relate to enforcement and execution by officers of customs and excise. The functions of the Commissioners of Customs and Excise were transferred to the Commissioners for Her Majesty’s Revenue and Customs by section 5(2) of the Commissioners for Her Majesty’s Revenue and Customs Act 2005 (c. 11). By section 50(1) of that Act, a reference in an enactment to the Commissioners of Customs and Excise is taken as a reference to the Commissioners for Her Majesty’s Revenue and Customs.

(2)

1984 c. 22. Functions of the Secretary of State, so far as exercisable in relation to Wales, were transferred to the National Assembly for Wales by the National Assembly for Wales (Transfer of Functions) Order 1999, S.I. 1999/672, article 2 and Schedule 1. Those functions were transferred to Welsh Ministers by section 162 and Schedule 11, paragraph 30 of the Government of Wales Act 2006.