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

Statutory Instruments

1992 No. 1711

EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES

[F1 [F2 The European Communities (Designation) (No. 2) Order 1992

Made

15th July 1992

Laid before Parliament

23rd July 1992

Coming into force

13th August 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:

Textual Amendments

F1 Order superseded in part (1.11.1993) by The European Communities (Designation) (No. 3) Order 1993 (S.I. 1993/2661), arts. 1, 3(4)

F2 Order revoked in part (8.12.2003) by The European Communities (Designation) (No. 4) Order 2003 (S.I. 2003/2901), art. 1(1), Sch. 4

Citation and commencement U.K.

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

Textual Amendments

F1 Order superseded in part (1.11.1993) by The European Communities (Designation) (No. 3) Order 1993 (S.I. 1993/2661), arts. 1, 3(4)

F2 Order revoked in part (8.12.2003) by The European Communities (Designation) (No. 4) Order 2003 (S.I. 2003/2901), art. 1(1), Sch. 4

Commencement Information

I1 Art. 1 in force at 13.8.1992, see art. 1

Designation of Ministers or departments U.K.

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).

Textual Amendments

F1 Order superseded in part (1.11.1993) by The European Communities (Designation) (No. 3) Order 1993 (S.I. 1993/2661), arts. 1, 3(4)

F2 Order revoked in part (8.12.2003) by The European Communities (Designation) (No. 4) Order 2003 (S.I. 2003/2901), art. 1(1), Sch. 4

Commencement Information

I2 Art. 2 in force at 13.8.1992, see art. 1

G. I. de Deney

Clerk of the Privy Council

Article 2

SCHEDULE 1 U.K.

Commencement Information

I3 Sch. 1 in force at 13.8.1992, see art. 1

(1)	(2)
Ministers or departments	Matters in relation to which the Ministers or departments are designated
The Secretary of State	Measures relating to freedom of access to, and dissemination of, information on the environment held by public authorities or bodies with public responsibilities for the environment and which are under the control of public authority.
The Secretary of State	Measures relating to the compulsory use of safety belts in vehicles of less than 3·5 tonnes.
The Secretary of State	Measures relating to the collection, treatmentand discharge of urban waste water,and the treatmentand discharge of waste water from certain industrial sectors.
The Secretary of State	Measures relating to efficiency requirements for new hot-water boilers fired with liquid or gaseous fuels.
The Secretary of State	Measures relating to energy labellingand standard product information for household products.
The Secretary of State	Measures relating to the minimum health and safety requirements for the workplace that relate to fire safety.
The Secretary of State	Measures relating to the operation of a Community eco-label award scheme.
The Secretary of State	Measures relating to restrictions on the marketing and use of certain dangerous substances and preparations.
Any Northern Ireland Department	The preceding items in this column.
The Secretary of State	Measures relating to the licensing of air carriers established in the Community, access by such carriers to intra-community air routes, and fares and rates for air services for carriage wholly within the Community.
The Treasury	Measures relating to preventing the use of the financial system for the purpose of money laundering.
The Secretary of State	Measures relating to the return of cultural objects unlawfully removed from the territory of a member State.
The Secretary of State	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.]]

Explanatory Note

(This note is not part of the Order)

This is a further Order in the series designating Ministers who, and departments which, may exercise powers to make regulations conferred by section 2(2) of the European Communities Act 1972 and specifying the matters in relation to which those powers may be exercised.

(1)

1972 c. 68.

(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.