Machinery of Government (Transfer of Functions) (Guernsey) Ordinance, 2007

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The Machinery of Government (Transfer of Functions) (Guernsey) Ordinance, 2007

THE STATES, in exercise of the powers conferred on them by sections 1, 2 and 3 of the Public Functions (Transfer and Performance) (Bailiwick of Guernsey) Law, 1991[a] and all other powers enabling them in that behalf, hereby order:-

Transfer of functions of departments.

1. The functions, rights and liabilities of the department named in column 1 of the Schedule arising under or by virtue of an enactment specified in relation to that department in column 2 of the Schedule are transferred to and vested in the department named in column 3 of the Schedule.

Amendment of statutory references to departments.

2. For any reference in an enactment specified in column 2 of the Schedule to the department named in relation to that enactment in column 1 of the Schedule, however expressed, there is substituted a reference to the department named in column 3 of the Schedule.

Savings and transitional provisions.

3. Anything done before the date of commencement of this Ordinance or in the process of being done on that date by or in relation to the department named in column 1 of the Schedule under or by virtue of an enactment specified in relation to that department in column 2 of the Schedule shall have effect as if done or (as the case may be) may be continued by or in relation to the department named in column 3 of the Schedule.

Subordinate legislation.

4. The provisions of sections 1, 2 and 3 apply in relation to any subordinate legislation made or having effect as if made under an enactment specified in column 2 of the Schedule as they apply in relation to the enactment itself, and the provisions of the enactment under which the subordinate legislation was made are varied insofar as is necessary to give effect to this section.

Repeal.

5. The bottom row in the Schedule to the Machinery of Government (Transfer of Functions) (Guernsey) (No. 3) Ordinance, 2006[b] (which refers to the "Public Services Department") is repealed.

Interpretation.

6. (1) In this Ordinance -

"the Law of 2004" means the Environmental Pollution (Guernsey) Law, 2004[c], and

"subordinate legislation" means -

(a) any Ordinance made under a Law, and

(b) any statutory instrument, regulation, rule, order, byelaw, scheme, code and other subordinate instrument of a legislative nature.

(2) Any reference in this Ordinance to an enactment is a reference thereto as from time to time amended, repealed and re-enacted (with or without modification), extended or applied.

Citation.

6. This Ordinance may be cited as the Machinery of Government (Transfer of Functions) (Guernsey) Ordinance, 2007.

Commencement.

7. This Ordinance shall come into force on the 1^st June, 2007.

SCHEDULE

Section 1

TRANSFER OF FUNCTIONS

UNDER ENACTMENTS

DEPARTMENT FROM WHICH FUNCTIONS

ARE TRANSFERRED

ENACTMENT UNDER WHICH FUNCTIONS

ARISE

DEPARTMENT TO WHICH

FUNCTIONS

ARE TRANSFERRED

Environment Department

Sections 30(1)(b), (c) and (d) and 31(1), (2) and (3) of the Law of 2004

Public Services Department[d]

[a]	Order in Council No. XXI of 1991.
[b]	Ordinance No. XLIX of 2006.
[c]	Order in Council No. XIII of 2004.
[d]	The Public Services Department was designated as the Waste Disposal Authority by the Environmental Pollution (Guernsey) Law, 2004 (Commencement and Designation of Waste Disposal Authority) Ordinance, 2006 (Ordinance No. XXVII of 2006).