The Transfer of Functions (Chequers and Dorneywood Estates) Order 2013
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2013 No. 537
Ministers Of The Crown
The Transfer of Functions (Chequers and Dorneywood Estates) Order 2013
Made 13th March 2013
Laid before Parliament 20th March 2013
Coming into force 17th April 2013
At the Court at Buckingham Palace, the 13th day of March 2013
Present,
The Queen’s Most Excellent Majesty in Council
Her Majesty, in exercise of the powers conferred by section 1 of the Ministers of the Crown Act 19751, is pleased, by and with the advice of Her Privy Council, to order as follows:
Citation and commencement
1.—(1) This Order may be cited as the Transfer of Functions (Chequers and Dorneywood Estates) Order 2013.
(2) This Order comes into force on 17th April 2013.
Transfer of functions
2. The functions of the Lord Privy Seal under the Chequers Estate Act 19172are transferred to the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster.
3.—(1) The functions under the Dorneywood trusts which were originally conferred on the Minister of Works3are transferred to the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster.
(2) The “Dorneywood trusts” means the trusts created by the Deed of Settlement of a fund to be known as the “Dorneywood Thomson Endowment Trust Fund ‘B’” for the further endowment of the Dorneywood Estate, Burnham, Buckinghamshire, which was made on 23rd June 1944.
Transfer of property, rights and liabilities
4. There are transferred to the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster—
(a) all property, rights and liabilities to which the Lord Privy Seal is entitled or subject at the coming into force of this Order in connection with any function transferred by article 2, and
(b) all property, rights and liabilities to which any Minister of the Crown is entitled or subject at the coming into force of this Order in connection with any function transferred by article 3.
Supplementary
5.—(1) Anything (including legal proceedings) which, at the coming into force of this Order, is in the process of being done by or in relation to any Minister of the Crown may, so far as it relates to any function transferred by article 2 or 3, or anything transferred by article 4, be continued by or in relation to the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster.
(2) Anything done (or having effect as if done) by or in relation to any Minister of the Crown in connection with any function transferred by article 2 or 3, or anything transferred by article 4, has effect, so far as is necessary for continuing its effect after the coming into force of this Order, as if done by or in relation to the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster.
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