Introductory text

United Kingdom

This Statutory Instrument has been made in consequence of a defect in SI 2018/852 and is being issued free of charge to all known recipients of that Statutory Instrument.

Equality

Public Sector Information

Made 29th August 2018

Laid before Parliament 31st August 2018

Coming into force 23rd September 2018

The Minister for the Cabinet Office is designated for the purposes of section 2(2) of the European Communities Act 1972^f1 in relation to the accessibility of public sector bodies’ websites and mobile applications^f2.

The Minister for the Cabinet Office makes these Regulations in exercise of the powers conferred by section 2(2) of, as read with paragraph 1A^f3 of Schedule 2 to, the European Communities Act 1972.

These Regulations make provision for a purpose mentioned in section 2(2) of that Act, and it appears to the Minister for the Cabinet Office that it is expedient for certain references to provisions of EU instruments to be construed as references to those provisions as amended from time to time.C1

Annotations

Modifications

C1: Regulations: transfer of functions (3.6.2025) by The Transfer of Functions (Digital Government) Order 2025 (S.I. 2025/557), arts. 1(2), 3 (with arts. 5-8)

Footnotes

f1: 1972 c.68; section 2(2) was amended by section 3(3) and Part 1 of the Schedule to the European Union (Amendment) Act 2008 (c.7), and section 27(1)(a) of the Legislative and Regulatory Reform Act 2006 (c.51).
f2: S.I. 2018/622.
f3: Paragraph 1A of Schedule 2 was inserted by section 28 of the Legislative and Regulatory Reform Act 2006 (c.51) and amended by section 3(3) and Part 1 of the Schedule to the European Union (Amendment) Act 2008 (c.7) and S.I. 2007/1388.