Article 2 Meanings of “the appropriate Minister”

Changes not yet applied. Later legislation changes this provision in ways not yet written into the text below:

art. 2(a) omitted by Coal Industry Act 1994 (Consequential Modifications of Subordinate Legislation) 1994 Sch.
art. 2 words substituted by Coal Industry Act 1994 (Consequential Modifications of Subordinate Legislation) 1994 Sch.
art. 2 words revoked by Public Bodies (Abolition of British Shipbuilders) 2013 Sch. 2

In Part XVI of the Local Government, Planning and Land Act 1980 “the appropriate Minister” means —

(a)

in relation to the British Coal Corporation or any wholly-owned subsidiary of the British Coal Corporation, the Secretary of State for Energy; and

(b)

in relation to British Shipbuilders and the British Steel Corporation or any wholly-owned subsidiary of either of them, the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry

and any reference to the Secretary of State and the appropriate Minister, in relation to those bodies, is a reference to the Secretary of State for the Environment and the Secretary of State mentioned in sub-paragraph (a) or (b), as appropriate.