Section 36: Dissolution
138.Section 36 provides for the Secretary of State, by order, to dissolve the EOC, CRE and DRC (collectively referred to in relevant subsequent sections as “the former Commissions”) or to remove specified functions from them.
139.Subsection (3) requires the Secretary of State to have exercised the order-making power in subsection (1) to ensure that all the former Commissions cease to exist by 31st March 2009.