1 Citation and commencement

(1)    This Order may be cited as the Welsh Ministers (Transfer of Functions) Order 2009.

(2)    This Order shall come into force on 1st April 2009.

NOTES
Initial Commencement
Specified date

Specified date: 1 April 2009: see para (2) above.

2 Transfer of Functions

2Transfer of Functions

Functions under section 47 of the Prison Act 1952 in relation to education, training and libraries are, so far as exercisable in relation to Wales, transferred to the Welsh Ministers.

NOTES
Initial Commencement
Specified date

Specified date: 1 April 2009: see art 1(2).

3 Transfer of property, rights and liabilitiesexception

3Transfer of property, rights and liabilities—exception

The provisions of paragraph 1(1) of Schedule 4 to the Government of Wales Act 2006 do not apply to any documentary or electronic records to which a Minister of the Crown is entitled at the coming into force of this Order, in connection with any function exercisable by the Minister which is transferred by this Order.

NOTES
Initial Commencement
Specified date

Specified date: 1 April 2009: see art 1(2).

Signature

Judith Simpson

Clerk of the Privy Council

EXPLANATORY NOTE

EXPLANATORY NOTE (This note is not part of the Order)

This Order is made under section 58 of, and paragraph 2 of Schedule 4 to, the Government of Wales Act 2006 (c 32) and comes into force on 1st April 2009.

This Order provides for certain functions under the Prison Act 1952 (c 52) (“the 1952 Act”) to be transferred to the Welsh Ministers.

Article 3 excludes the transfer to the Welsh Ministers of documentary or electronic records connected with functions included in this Order, which would otherwise take place by operation of paragraph 1 of Schedule 4 to the Government of Wales Act 2006.

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