3.—(1) Despite its transfer to the Scottish Ministers by virtue of section 53, any specified function shall be exercisable by the person by whom it was exercisable immediately before that transfer as well as by the Scottish Ministers.
(2) In paragraph (1), “specified function” means a function conferred by an enactment mentioned in column 1 of Schedule 1 but, if there is a corresponding entry in column 2 of that Schedule, it means that function so far as it is exercisable to the extent specified in column 2.
(3) Despite the transfer to the Scottish Ministers by virtue of section 53 of any function described in Schedule 2, that function shall be exercisable by a Minister of the Crown as well as by the Scottish Ministers.
Commencement Information
I1Art. 3 in force at 1.7.1999, see art. 1