
1 
This Order may be cited as the Public Appointments and Public Bodies etc. (Scotland) Act 2003 (Treatment of Poverty and Inequality Commission and Scottish Commission on Social Security as Specified Authorities) Order 2018 and comes into force on the day after the day on which it is made.
2 
The Poverty and Inequality Commission and the Scottish Commission on Social Security are to be treated, for the purposes of or in connection with any appointment to those bodies, as if each were a specified authority within the meaning of section 2(1) of the Public Appointments and Public Bodies etc. (Scotland) Act 2003 (the Commissioner’s functions).
AILEEN CAMPBELL
A member of the Scottish Government
St Andrew’s House,
Edinburgh
24th October 2018