{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/crown-estate-scotland-order-2017/article-12",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/crown-estate-scotland-order-2017/article-12.json",
  "legislation": "ssi/2017/36",
  "legislation_title": "Crown Estate Scotland Order 2017",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/crown-estate-scotland-order-2017",
  "path": "article/12",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "12",
  "heading": "Authority to perform functions",
  "text": "(1) Crown Estate Scotland may authorise—\n(a) any of its members;\n(b) any committee or sub-committee established by it;\n(c) its chief executive; or\n(d) any other member of its staff,\nto perform such of its functions (and to such extent) as it may determine.\n(2) But Crown Estate Scotland may not authorise any other person to perform any of the following functions—\n(a) preparing a report under article 18(1)(a);\n(b) preparing statements of account under section 34(1)(b) of the Scottish Crown Estate Act 2019.\n(3) The giving of authority under this article to perform a function does not—\n(a) affect Crown Estate Scotland's responsibility for the performance of the function; or\n(b) prevent it from performing the function itself.",
  "extent": "S",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in arts. 3-19 substituted (1.4.2020) by Scottish Crown Estate Act 2019 (asp 1), s. 46(2), sch. 1 para. 11(1)(b); S.S.I. 2020/77, reg. 2(1), sch. 1"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in art. 12(2)(b) substituted (1.4.2020) by Scottish Crown Estate Act 2019 (asp 1), s. 46(2), sch. 2 para. 2(3); S.S.I. 2020/77, reg. 2(1), sch. 1"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Words in art. 12(3)(a) substituted (1.4.2020) by Scottish Crown Estate Act 2019 (asp 1), s. 46(2), sch. 1 para. 11(1)(d); S.S.I. 2020/77, reg. 2(1), sch. 1"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Art. 12 in force at 16.2.2017, see art. 1(1)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ssi/2017/36/article/12",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T21:20:09.754506+00:00"
  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}