
1 
This Order may be cited as the European Communities (Designation) Order 1987 and shall come into force on 16th April 1987.
2 

(1) For the purposes of section 2(2) of the European Communities Act 1972 the Ministers or government departments specified in column 1 of the Schedule to this Order are hereby designated in relation to the matters respectively specified in column 2 of that Schedule.
(2) Where a Minister or government department is designated in relation to any item in column 2 of the said Schedule, then, for the purposes of the said section 2(2), that Minister or government department is also hereby designated in relation to anything supplemental or incidental to the matters specified in that item.
(3) Where both a Minister and one or more government departments are designated by this Order in relation to any matter, the designation has effect as respects the making of regulations by any of them or by more than one of them acting jointly.
(4) Regulations made by a Northern Ireland department in pursuance of this Order shall form part of the law of Northern Ireland and not of any other part of the United Kingdom.
G.I. de Deney
Clerk of the Privy Council

SCHEDULE


(1) (2)
Ministers or Departments Matters in relation to which the Ministers or departments are designated
The Secretary of State Measures in respect of the marketing of, and technical requirements relating to, construction plant and protective structures for construction plant.
Any Northern Ireland department The preceding item in this column.
Any Northern Ireland department Measures in respect of the conditions of, and the recognition of qualifications for, access to and pursuit of activities in the field of pharmacy.
The Secretary of State The conferment and protection of exclusive rights in the topographies of semiconductor products.
The Secretary of State The provision of guarantees, grants and loans in respect of the financing of the construction of ships and mobile offshore installations and their equipment.