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The Scotland Act 1998 (Agency Arrangements) (Specification) Order 2014

S.I. 2014/1892 · Made 16 July 2014

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Constitutional Law

Devolution, Scotland

Employment

Made 16th July 2014

Laid before Parliament 23rd July 2014

Laid before the Scottish Parliament 23rd July 2014

Coming into force 3rd November 2014

At the Court at Buckingham Palace, the 16th day of July 2014

Present,

The Queen’s Most Excellent Majesty in Council

Her Majesty, in exercise of the powers conferred on Her by sections 93(3) and 113(3) of the Scotland Act 1998f1, is pleased, by and with the advice of Her Privy Council, to order as follows:

Annotations to the whole text

Footnotes

f1

1998 c.46; section 93 was amended by section 23 of the Scotland Act 2012 (c.11).

Contents

  1. 1Citation, commencement and extent
  2. 2Specification of functions
  3. Signature
  4. Explanatory note

1Citation, commencement and extent

(1)

This Order may be cited as the Scotland Act 1998 (Agency Arrangements) (Specification) Order 2014 and shall come into force on 3rd November 2014.

(2)

This Order does not extend to Northern Ireland.

2Specification of functions

(1)

The functions of the Secretary of State under the following provisions are specified for the purposes of section 93(1) of the Scotland Act 1998—

(a)

section 2 of the Employment and Training Act 1973f1, in so far as those functions may be exercised by the Secretary of State to make arrangements for the delivery of services providing for—

(i)

occupational health assessments in relation to persons resident in Scotland who are absent from employment, or at risk of being absent from employment, due to sickness;

(ii)

advice to persons in connection with those assessments;

(iii)

occupational health and related advice;

(b)

section 3 of the Social Security Act 1998f2, in so far as those functions may be exercised by the Secretary of State for the purposes of, or for any purposes connected with, those services.

(2)

In this article “employment” has the same meaning as in section 13 of the Employment and Training Act 1973f3.

Signature

Richard Tilbrook

Clerk of the Privy Council

Explanatory note

(This note is not part of the Order)

This Order specifies, for the purposes of section 93(1) of the Scotland Act 1998, functions of the Secretary of State. Section 93(1) allows a Minister of the Crown to make arrangements for any of the specified functions to be exercised on behalf of the Minister of the Crown by the Scottish Ministers.

The functions of the Secretary of State which are specified in this Order are certain of the functions under section 2 of the Employment and Training Act 1973 (assisting persons to obtain and retain employment) and under section 3 of the Social Security Act 1998 (use of information).

An impact assessment has not been prepared for this Order as it has no impact on business or civil society organisations.