The Secretary of State may also make EOR regulations which contain provision that confers a function on, or modifies or removes a function of, the Scottish Ministers (upon consulting the Scottish Ministers). o Clause 163, read together with Schedule 14, as these contain restrictions on the exercise of the Scottish Ministers’ executively devolved powers and functions under Part 6. o Clause 164, as the Secretary of State may direct that no EOR is to be prepared in relation to a proposed relevant consent which is solely for the purposes of national defence or preventing or responding to civil emergency.