Commentary Part 1: General Order-Making Powers Section 1: Power to abolish
20.Section 1 confers power on a Minister to make provision by order to abolish any body or office listed in Schedule 1. As subsection (2) describes, such an order can include provision transferring any or all of the functions of an abolished body or office to an “eligible person” (as defined in subsection (3)). On this basis, an order made under section 1 might, for instance, abolish a body and all its functions, or might abolish a body and transfer some or all of its functions to a Minister, to another person exercising public functions, a company limited by guarantee, co-operative society, a charitable incorporated organisation, or any other eligible person permitted by subsection (3).