Article 3

SCHEDULE 7COMMITTEE OF INVESTIGATION FOR GREAT BRITAINCONSUMERS' COMMITTEE FOR GREAT BRITAIN

PART IAPPLICATION AND INTERPRETATION

1.—(1) This Schedule shall apply to the Committee of Investigation for Great Britain and the Consumers' Committee for Great Britain.

(2) In this Schedule–

“the 1958 Act” means the Agricultural Marketing Act 1958(1);

“the Committee” means the Consumers' Committee for Great Britain or, as the case may be, the Committee of Investigation for Great Britain.

PART IIMODIFICATIONS

General modification of functions in relation to the Committees

2.—(1) Any function which is exercisable in relation to the Committee by the Secretary of State for Scotland acting alone shall instead be exercisable by the Scottish Ministers.

(2) Any function which is–

(a)specifically exercisable in relation to the Committee; and

(b)exercisable by the Secretary of State concerned with agriculture in Scotland acting jointly with other Ministers of the Crown,

shall instead be exercisable by the Scottish Ministers and those other Ministers acting jointly.

(3) This paragraph does not apply to any function to which paragraph 3 applies.

3.—(1) This paragraph applies to the function of making regulations under section 19(5) of the 1958 Act and to functions of making orders under section 19(6) or (7) of that Act.

(2) The Secretary of State concerned with agriculture in Scotland is to cease to be among the Ministers who, acting jointly, may exercise any function to which this paragraph applies.

(3) Any function to which this paragraph applies shall be exercisable only with the consent of the Scottish Ministers, and section 88(2) of the Act shall not apply in relation to any such function.