The Public Appointments and Public Bodies etc. (Scotland) Act 2003 (Treatment of the Convener of the School Closure Review Panels as Specified Authority) Order 2014

JurisdictionScotland
CitationSSI 2014/230
Year2014

2014No. 230

PUBLIC BODIES

The Public Appointments and Public Bodies etc. (Scotland) Act 2003 (Treatment of the Convener of the School Closure Review Panels as Specified Authority) Order 2014

20thAugust2014

21stAugust2014

The Scottish Ministers make the following Order in exercise of the powers conferred by section 3(3) of the Public Appointments and Public Bodies etc. (Scotland) Act 2003( 1) and all other powers enabling them to do so.

In accordance with section 18(4)( 2) of that Act, a draft of this Order has been laid before and approved by resolution of the Scottish Parliament.

Citation and commencement

1. This Order may be cited as the Public Appointments and Public Bodies etc. (Scotland) Act 2003 (Treatment of the Convener of the School Closure Review Panels as Specified Authority) Order 2014 and comes into force on the day after the day on which it is made.

Treatment as specified authority

2. The Convener of the School Closure Review Panels is to be treated, for the purposes of or in connection with any appointment to that office, as if it were a specified authority within the meaning of section 2(1) of the Public Appointments and Public Bodies etc. (Scotland) Act 2003 (the Commissioner's functions).

MICHAEL RUSSELL

A member of the Scottish Government

St Andrew's House,

Edinburgh

20th August 2014

EXPLANATORY NOTE

(This note is not part of the Order)

This Order provides that the Convener of the School Closure Review Panels is, for the purposes of or in connection with appointments to that office, to be treated as if it were a specified authority listed in schedule 2 to the Public Appointments and Public Bodies etc. (Scotland) Act 2003.

(1) 2003 asp 4.

(2) Section 18(4) was modified by paragraph 5 of schedule 3 to the Interpretation and Legislative Reform (Scotland) Act 2010 (asp 10).

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