Transfer of Functions (Secretary of State and Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food) Order 1985
| Jurisdiction | UK Non-devolved |
| Citation | SI 1985/442 |
| Year | 1985 |
1985 No. 442
MINISTERS OF THE CROWN
The Transfer of Functions (Secretary of State and Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food) Order 1985
Made 20th March 1985
Laid before Parliament 28th March 1985
Coming into Operation 1st April 1985
At the Court at Buckingham Palace, the 20th day of March 1985
Present,
The Queen's Most Excellent Majesty in Council
Her Majesty, in pursuance of section 1 of the Ministers of the Crown Act 1975, 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 Transfer of Functions (Secretary of State and Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food) Order 1985.
(2) In this Order “” means .
(3) This Order comes into operation on 1st April 1985.
Transfer of functions from the Secretary of State to the Agriculture Minister
2. The functixons of the Secretary of State under the Coast Protection Act 1949, so far as, immediately before the coming into operation of this Order, entrusted to the Secretary of State for the Environment, are hereby transferred to the Agriculture Minister.
Transfer of functions from the Agriculture Minister to the Secretary of State
3. The functions of the Agriculture Minister under paragraph 13 of Schedule 4 to the New Towns Act 1981 are hereby transferred to the Secretary of State.
Consequential and supplementary provisions
4.—(1) 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 transfer effected by Article 2 above, as if any reference to the Secretary of State or an officer of his (including any reference which is to be construed as such a reference) were or included a reference to the Agriculture Minister or to an officer of his (as the case may require).
(2) In relation to the exercise by the Agriculture Minister of any functions transferred to him by Article 2 above the provisions of the Coast Protection Act 1949 mentioned below in this Article shall have effect subject to the modifications there mentioned (which remove certain references which have effect as references to the Agriculture Minister).
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