Article 3
1.—(1) This Schedule shall apply to the Milk Development Council.
(2) In this Schedule–
“the principal Order” means the Milk Development Council Order 1995(1);
“the 1947 Act” means the Industrial Organisation and Development Act 1947(2);
“the Council” means the Milk Development Council.
2.—(1) Any function exercisable in relation to the Council 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 Council; and
(b)exercisable by the Secretary of State for 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 any function exercisable by a Minister of the Crown under the 1947 Act to modify the principal Order.
(2) The Secretary of State for 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) shall not apply in relation to any such function.
4.—(1) Without prejudice to the generality of the modification made by paragraph 2, the consequential modifications to the principal Order made by sub-paragraph (2) shall have effect.
(2) In paragraph 2(1) of the principal Order (interpretation) in the definition of “the Ministers” for the words “Secretary of State for Scotland” there is substituted “Scottish Ministers”.
S.I. 1995/356.