Minor and Consequential Amendments Part 1 .Amendments to the DDA 1995 Paragraph 26
212.This amends section 33 (hire car services at designated transport facilities). It provides that functions of the Secretary of State to make regulations under this section, so far as exercisable in relation to transport facilities in Scotland, are exercisable by the Scottish Ministers. It replaces the equivalent provision made by the Scotland Act 1998 (Transfer of Functions to the Scottish Ministers etc.) Order 1999 (S.I. 1999/1750), in which the entry relating to section 33 of the DDA is revoked. The amendment preserves the Secretary of State’s existing power to legislate in respect of Scotland under section 2(2) of the European Communities Act 1972. The amendments are being made in the interest of transparency and greater clarity given that, for technical reasons, it is necessary to refer expressly to regulations and orders made under section 33 in amendments to sections 67 and 68 made by the 2005 Act.