Part III General Provisions
Scotland Act 1998 (1998 c 46) | Legislation

Part III General Provisions

Scottish public authorities

1

(1)     This Schedule does not reserve any Scottish public authority if some of its functions relate to reserved matters and some do not, unless it is a cross-border public authority.

(2)     Sub-paragraph (1) has effect as regards—

(a)     the constitution of the authority, including its establishment and dissolution, its assets and liabilities and its funding and receipts,

(b)     conferring or removing any functions specifically exercisable in relation to the authority.

(3)     Sub-paragraph (2)(b) does not apply to any function which is specifically exercisable in relation to a particular function of the authority if the particular function relates to reserved matters.

(4)     An authority to which this paragraph applies is referred to in this Act as a Scottish public authority with mixed functions.

2

Paragraph 1 of Part I of this Schedule does not reserve any Scottish public authority with functions none of which relate to reserved matters (referred to in this Act as a Scottish public authority with no reserved functions).

[Tribunals

2A

(1)     This Schedule does not reserve the transfer to a Scottish tribunal of functions of a tribunal that relate to reserved matters, so

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