Secretary of State for Social Services Order 1968

JurisdictionUK Non-devolved
CitationSI 1968/1699
Year1968

1968 No. 1699

MINISTERS OF THE CROWN

The Secretary of State for Social Services Order 1968

25thOctober 1968

1stNovember 1968

At the Court at Buckingham Palace, the 25th day of October 1968

Present,

The Queen's Most Excellent Majesty in Council

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 Social Services 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 Royal Warrants, Orders in Council, Orders by Her Majesty, orders, rules, regulations, statements, schemes, byelaws, judgments, decrees, awards, agreements, bonds, covenants, securities, certificates, licences 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 on 1st November 1968.

Transfer of functions and dissolution of Ministries of Health and Social Security

2. There are hereby transferred to the Secretary of State all functions of the Minister of Health and all functions of the Minister of Social Security, and the Ministry of Health and the Ministry of Social Security are hereby dissolved.

(a) 1946 c. 31.

(b) 1889 c. 63.

Transfer of property and liabilities

3. There are hereby transferred to the Secretary of State for Social Services all property, rights and liabilities to which the Minister of Health and the Minister of Social Security were respectively entitled or subject immediately before the coming into operation of this Order.

Incorporation of Secretary of State for Social Services

4. Paragraphs 5 to 7 of Schedule 1 to the Ministers of the Crown Act 1964(a) (which provide for the incorporation of, and the proof of instruments made or issued by, Ministers to whom they apply) shall apply to the Secretary of State for Social Services as they applied to the Minister of Social Security, and references in those paragraphs to the Minister and the Ministry shall be construed accordingly; but anything done by or in relation to any other Secretary of State for the Secretary of State for Social Services as a corporation sole shall have effect as if done by or in relation to the Secretary of State for Social Services.

Amendment, repeal and adaptation of enactments and instruments

5.—(1) In Schedule 1 to the Ministerial Salaries Consolidation Act 1965(b) the references to the Minister of Health, the Minister of Social Security, the Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Health and the Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Social Security shall be omitted; and in section 2(2) of that Act (which, as amended by the Ministry of Land and Natural Resources (Dissolution) Order 1967(c), provides that the number of persons to whom salaries may be paid as Ministers of State shall not exceed twenty-one), for the words "twenty-one" there shall be substituted the words "twenty-three".

(2) In Schedule 2 to the Parliamentary Commissioner Act 1967(d) for the entry "Ministry of Health" there shall be substituted the entry "Department of Health and Social Security" and the entry "Ministry of Social Security" shall be omitted.

(3) The enactments and instrument 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 described in Part II of that Schedule are hereby repealed to the extent specified in column 3 of that Part.

(4) Subject to paragraphs (1) to (3) above, any enactment or instrument passed or made before the coming into operation of this Order shall have effect, so far as may be necessary for the purpose or in consequence of the foregoing provisions of this Order, as if—

(a) for any...

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