Commentary Part 1: General Order-Making Powers Section 4: Power to modify funding arrangements
23.Section 4 confers power on a Minister to make provision by order to modify the funding arrangements of a body or office listed in Schedule 4. Subsection (2) requires the consent of Treasury for an order to be made under section 4. Subsection (3) specifies that the power includes alterations to the funding a body or office receives from a Minister, or giving a body or office-holder the power to charge a fee for a function that body or office carries out. For example, an order made under this section might give a body which issues licences for a particular purpose the power to charge a fee for the issue of such a licence.