{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/transfer-of-functions-nuclear-installations-order-1999/article-2",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/transfer-of-functions-nuclear-installations-order-1999/article-2.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1999/2786",
  "legislation_title": "The Transfer of Functions (Nuclear Installations) Order 1999",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/transfer-of-functions-nuclear-installations-order-1999",
  "path": "article/2",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Transfer of functions",
  "text": "The functions under the Nuclear Installations Act 1965 which are exercisable by those Secretaries of State acting jointly who for the time being discharge in relation to England and Wales and in relation to Scotland the functions expressed to be conferred by that Act on the Minister, are hereby transferred to the Secretary of State.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "1965 c. 57."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "The functions are so exercisable by reason of the definition of “prescribed” in section 26(1) of that Act, as modified by the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry Order 1970 (S.I. 1970/1537), Schedule 2, paragraph 7. Functions specified in Schedule 3 to The Scotland Act 1998 (Transfer of Functions to the Scottish Ministers etc.) Order 1999 (S.I. 1999/1750) may be exercised only after consultation with the Scottish Ministers."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1999/2786/article/2",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T09:45:59.648126+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."
}