Secretary of State for Employment and Productivity Order 1968
| Jurisdiction | UK Non-devolved |
| Citation | SI 1968/729 |
1968 No. 729
MINISTERS OF THE CROWN
The Secretary of State for Employment and Productivity Order 19688thMay 1968
15thMay 1968
At the Court at Buckingham Palace, the 8th day of May 1968
Present,
The Queen's Most Excellent Majesty in Council
Whereas Her Majesty has been pleased to appoint a principal Secretary of State by the style and title of Secretary of State for Employment and Productivity:
And whereas copies of the draft of this Order have been laid before Parliament in pursuance of section 3 of the Ministers of the Crown (Transfer of Functions) Act 1946(a), and each House has presented an Address to Her Majesty praying that the Order be made:
Now, therefore, Her Majesty, in pursuance of section 1 of the said Act, is pleased, by and with the advice of Her Privy Council, to order, and it is hereby ordered, as follows:—
Citation, interpretation and commencement
1.—(1) This Order may be cited as the Secretary of State for Employment and Productivity Order 1968.
(2) The Interpretation Act 1889(b) applies for the interpretation of this Order as it applies for the interpretation of an Act of Parliament.
(3) In this Order " instrument" (without prejudice to the generality of that expression) includes in particular Orders in Council, judgments, decrees, orders, rules, regulations, schemes, byelaws awards, agreements, memoranda and articles of association, certificates and other documents.
(4) Any reference in this Order to an enactment or instrument is a reference thereto as amended, and includes a reference thereto as applied, by or under any other enactment or instrument.
(5) This Order shall come into operation at the end of the period of seven days beginning with the day on which it is made.
Transfer of functions and dissolution of Ministry of Labour
2.—(1) There are hereby transferred to the Secretary of State all functions of the Minister of Labour, and the Ministry of Labour is hereby dissolved.
(2) With the functions hereby transferred, there are also hereby transferred to the Secretary of State all property, rights and liabilities to which the Minister of Labour was entitled or subject immediately before the coming into operation of this Order.
(a) 1946 c. 31.
(b) 1889 c. 63.
Amendment, repeal and adaptation of enactments and instruments
3.—(1) The enactments described in Part I of the Schedule to this Order shall have effect subject to the amendments set out in relation thereto in column 2 of that Part; and the enactments...
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