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# The Transfer of Functions (Chequers and Dorneywood Estates) Order 2014

## Title and introductory text {#prelims}

2014 No. 2708
Ministers Of The Crown
The Transfer of Functions (Chequers and Dorneywood Estates) Order 2014
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, is pleased, by and with the advice of Her Privy Council, to order as follows:

## 1 Citation and commencement {#article-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 Transfer of functions {#article-2}

The functions of the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster under the Chequers Estate Act 1917 are transferred to the Lord Privy Seal.

## 3 Transfer of functions {#article-3}

(1) The functions of the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster under the Dorneywood trusts 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 Transfer of property, rights and liabilities {#article-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 Supplementary {#article-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 Consequential amendment {#article-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”.