The Transfer of Functions (Chequers and Dorneywood Estates) Order 2016
| Jurisdiction | UK Non-devolved |
| Citation | SI 2016/1113 |
| Year | 2016 |
2016 No. 1113
Ministers Of The Crown
The Transfer of Functions (Chequers and Dorneywood Estates) Order 2016
Made 16th November 2016
Laid before Parliament 23th November 2016
Coming into force 14th December 2016
At the Court at Buckingham Palace, the 16th day of November 2016
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 2016.
(2) This Order comes into force on 14th December 2016.
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 of the Lord Privy Seal under the Dorneywood trusts3are 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 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 or 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 the Lord Privy Seal 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 the Lord Privy Seal in connection with any function transferred by article 2 or 3, or anything transferred by article 4, has...
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