Explanatory Note
(This note is not part of the Order)
This Order transfers to the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry all the functions vested under various enactments in the Secretary of State for Energy.
The Order also makes provision in connection with the entrusting to the Secretary of State for the Environment and to the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, respectively, of the energy efficiency functions previously entrusted to the Secretary of State for Energy and of all the other functions previously entrusted to him.
The property, rights and liabilities to which the Secretary of State for Energy is entitled or subject in connection with the functions to which the Order relates are transferred by the Order to the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry or the Secretary of State for the Environment, as appropriate.
The Order makes supplemental and consequential provision in relation to the transfers, including an amendment of the Parliamentary Commissioner Act 1967.