2U.K.For the purposes of—
(a)section 23(2)(b) of the Scotland Act 1998 (c. 46) (power of Scottish Parliament to require persons outside Scotland to attend to give evidence or produce documents); and
(b)section 70(6) of that Act (accounts prepared by cross-border bodies),
the Council is to be treated as a cross-border public authority within the meaning of that Act.