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Statutory Instruments
EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES
Made
22nd March 2005
Laid before Parliament
4th April 2005
Coming into force
23rd April 2005
At the Court at Buckingham Palace, the 22nd day of March 2005
Present,
The Queen’s Most Excellent Majesty in Council
1.—(1) This Order may be cited as the European Communities (Designation) Order 2005 and shall come into force on 23rd April 2005.
(2) In this Order—
“the Act” means the European Communities Act 1972;
“Minister or government department” means a Minister of the Crown or government department, but does not include a Northern Ireland Minister or Northern Ireland department” and
“regulations” means regulations made pursuant to section 2(2) of the Act.
2. For the purposes of section 2(2) of the Act, the Secretary of State is designated in relation to the transparency of financial relations between public authorities and public and private undertakings.
3.—(1) For the purposes of section 2(2) of the Act, the National Assembly for Wales is designated in relation to the matters specified in the Schedule to this Order.
(2) Where the National Assembly for Wales is designated by this Order in relation to any matter, for which any Minister or government department has been designated by any other Order for the purposes of section 2(2) of the Act, any of them may make regulations and, if regulations are made by more than one, they may do so jointly.
(3) Regulations made by the National Assembly for Wales pursuant to this Order shall apply in relation to Wales only.
4. Article 4(2) of the European Communities (Designation) (No. 7) Order 2004(3) is deleted.
5. The designation of the National Assembly for Wales in respect of the controlled management of hazardous waste, in the European Communities (Designation) (No. 3) Order 2001(4) is hereby revoked.
A. K. Galloway
Clerk of the Privy Council
Article 3
The prevention and limitation of the effects of accidents involving dangerous substances insofar as they relate to land-use planning policies and consents.
Measures relating to the prevention, reduction and elimination of pollution caused by waste and the management of packaging and packaging waste.
(This note is not part of the Order)
This is a further Order in the series designating authorities which may exercise the power to make regulations conferred by section 2(2) of the European Communities Act 1972 and specifying the matters in relation to which that power may be exercised. The Order also revokes a designation which is superseded, and deletes article 4(2) of the European Communities (Designation) (No. 7) Order 2004.