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Statutory Instruments
Ministers Of The Crown
Made
8th October 2014
Laid before Parliament
15th October 2014
Coming into force
5th November 2014
At the Court at Buckingham Palace, the 8th day of October 2014
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 1975(1), is pleased, by and with the advice of Her Privy Council, to order as follows:
1. (1) This Order may be cited as the Transfer of Functions (Chequers and Dorneywood Estates) Order 2014.
(2) This Order comes into force on 5th November 2014.
2. The functions of the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster under the Chequers Estate Act 1917(2) are transferred to the Lord Privy Seal.
3. (1) The functions of the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster under the Dorneywood trusts(3) are transferred to the Lord Privy Seal.
(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.
4. There are transferred to the Lord Privy Seal all property, rights and liabilities to which the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster is entitled or subject at the coming into force of this Order in connection with any function transferred by article 2 or 3.
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 Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster 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 Lord Privy Seal.
(2) Anything done (or having effect as if done) by or in relation to the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster 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 Lord Privy Seal.
(3) Any enactment or instrument passed or made before the coming into force of this Order has effect, so far as is necessary for the purposes of or in consequence of article 2, 3 or 4, as if references to (and references which are to be read as references to) the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster were or included references to the Lord Privy Seal.
(4) This Order does not affect the validity of anything done (or having effect as if done) by or in relation to the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster before the coming into force of this Order.
(5) In this article "instrument" includes Royal Charters, Royal Warrants, Orders in Council, Letters Patent, judgments, decrees, orders, rules, regulations, schemes, bye-laws, awards, licences, authorisations, consents, approvals, contracts and other agreements, memoranda and articles of association, certificates, deeds and other documents.
6. In the Schedule to the Chequers Estate Act 1917 (deed of settlement of the Chequers Estate), in clauses 1(e) and 10, for "the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster" substitute "the Lord Privy Seal".
Richard Tilbrook
Clerk of the Privy Council
(This note is not part of the Order)
This Order transfers the statutory functions relating to the Chequers Estate and functions relating to the Dorneywood Estate from the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster to the Lord Privy Seal, and makes provision in connection with those transfers.
Article 2 transfers to the Lord Privy Seal the functions of the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster under the Chequers Estate Act 1917.
Article 3 transfers to the Lord Privy Seal the functions of the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster under the Dorneywood Thomson Endowment Trust Fund ‘B'. This Fund was established by Baron Courtauld-Thomson, when he gave the Dorneywood Estate to the nation, for the purpose of maintaining the Estate.
Article 4 transfers property, rights and liabilities in relation to the functions transferred by articles 2 and 3 to the Lord Privy Seal.
Article 5 makes supplemental provision in connection with articles 2 to 4.
Article 6 makes consequential amendments.
Nothing in this Order alters the functions of the Welsh Ministers, the Scottish Ministers or the devolved authorities in Northern Ireland.
A full impact assessment has not been produced for this instrument as no impact on the private or voluntary sectors is foreseen.
1975 c. 26; section 1 was amended by section 20 of the Constitutional Reform Act 2005 (c. 4).
7 & 8 Geo 5 c. 55. The Act was amended by the Chequers Estate Act 1958 (6 & 7 Eliz 2 c. 60) and the Transfer of Functions (Chequers and Dorneywood Estates) Order 2013 (S.I. 2013/537); other amendments have been made to the Act which are not relevant to this Order.
The functions in question were transferred to the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster by the Transfer of Functions (Chequers and Dorneywood Estates) Order 2013 (S.I. 2013/537).
