The Public Appointments and Public Bodies etc. (Scotland) Act 2003 (Treatment of Poverty and Inequality Commission and Scottish Commission on Social Security as Specified Authorities) Order 2018

Made: 24th October 2018

Coming into force: 25th October 2018

In accordance with section 18(4) of that Act[^f00002], a draft of this Order has been laid before and approved by resolution of the Scottish Parliament.

Citation and commencement

1

This Order may be cited as the Public Appointments and Public Bodies etc. (Scotland) Act 2003 (Treatment of Poverty and Inequality Commission and Scottish Commission on Social Security as Specified Authorities) Order 2018 and comes into force on the day after the day on which it is made.

Treatment of Poverty and Inequality Commission and Scottish Commission on Social Security as Specified Authorities

2

The Poverty and Inequality Commission and the Scottish Commission on Social Security are to be treated, for the purposes of or in connection with any appointment to those bodies, as if each were a specified authority within the meaning of section 2(1) of the Public Appointments and Public Bodies etc. (Scotland) Act 2003 (the Commissioner’s functions).

Signed

AILEEN CAMPBELL — A member of the Scottish Government — 24th October 2018

Explanatory note

(This note is not part of the Order)

EXPLANATORY NOTE

This Order provides that the Poverty and Inequality Commission and the Scottish Commission on Social Security, for the purpose of or in connection with appointments to those bodies, are to be treated as if each were a specified authority listed in schedule 2 to the Public Appointments and Public Bodies etc. (Scotland) Act 2003.

Footnotes

[^f00001]: 2003 asp 4.

[^f00002]: Section 18(4) was modified by paragraph 5 of schedule 3 of the Interpretation and Legislative Reform (Scotland) Act 2010 (asp 10).