The Adventure Activities Licensing (Amendment) Regulations 2007

Statutory Instruments

2007 No. 446

health and safety

The Adventure Activities Licensing (Amendment) Regulations 2007

Made

16th February 2007

Laid before Parliament

26th February 2007

Coming into force

1st April 2007

The Secretary of State, acting in relation to England and Scotland, in exercise of the powers conferred by sections 1(4)(i) and 3(2)(a) of the Activity Centres (Young Persons’ Safety) Act 1995(1), and having consulted the Health and Safety Commission and other persons he considered appropriate in accordance with section 3(3) of that Act and the Scottish Ministers in accordance with section 88(2) of the Scotland Act 1998(2),

and

the National Assembly for Wales, acting in relation to Wales, in exercise of the powers conferred on the Secretary of State by sections 1(4)(i) and 3(2)(a) of the Activity Centres (Young Persons’ Safety) Act 1995 and now vested in it(3), and having consulted the Health and Safety Commission in accordance with section 3(3) of that Act,

make the following Regulations:

(1)

1995 c. 15.

(2)

1998 c. 46. Section 88(2) requires a Minister of the Crown to consult the Scottish Ministers before he exercises, in relation to a cross-border public authority, any specific function which relates to any appointment or removal of the authority or of any members or office-holders of the authority or whose exercise might affect Scotland otherwise than wholly in relation to reserved matters. The person designated for the purposes of section 1(1) of the Activity Centres (Young Persons’ Safety) Act 1995 is a cross-border public authority by virtue of the Scotland Act 1998 (Cross-Border Public Authorities) (Specification) Order 1999 (S.I. 1999/1319).

(3)

The functions of the Secretary of State were, so far as exercisable in relation to Wales, transferred to the National Assembly for Wales by article 2 of the National Assembly for Wales (Transfer of Functions) Order 1999 (S.I. 1999/672). See entry in Schedule 1for the Activity Centres (Young Persons’ Safety) Act 1995.