Citation and commencement

1.  This Order may be cited as the European Communities (Designation)(No. 2) Order 1991 and shall come into force on 25th April 1991.

Designation of Ministers or departments

2.—(1) For the purposes of section 2(2) of the European Communities Act1972 the Ministers or government departments specified in column 1 ofthe Schedule to this Order are hereby designated in relation to thematters specified in column 2 of that Schedule.

(2) Where a Minister or government department is designated in relationto any item in column 2 of the said Schedule, then, for the purposes ofthe said section 2(2), that Minister or government department is alsohereby designated in relation to anything supplemental or incidental tothe matters specified in that item.

(3) Where more than one Minister or government department is designatedby this Order in relation to any matter, the designation has effect asrespects the making of regulations by any of them or by more than one ofthem acting jointly.

(4) Regulations made by a Northern Ireland department in pursuance ofthis Order, that are not made jointly with any Minister, shall form partof the law of Northern Ireland and not of any other part of the UnitedKingdom.

Article 2

SCHEDULE

Explanatory Note

(This note is not part of the Order)

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