The Transfer of Functions (Her Majesty’s Land Registry, the Meteorological Office and Ordnance Survey) Order 2011

Citation and commencement

1.—(1) This Order may be cited as the Transfer of Functions (Her Majesty’s Land Registry, the Meteorological Office and Ordnance Survey) Order 2011.

(2) This Order comes into force on 9th November 2011.

Interpretation

2.—(1) For the purposes of this Order, a function is a “former LC function” so far as—

(a)it is transferred by article 3(1), or

(b)it was entrusted to the Lord Chancellor immediately before 18th July 2011 and has before the making of this Order been entrusted to the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills.

(2) For the purposes of this Order, a function is a “former MoD function” so far as—

(a)it is transferred by article 3(2), or

(b)it was entrusted to the Secretary of State for Defence immediately before 18th July 2011 and has before the making of this Order been entrusted to the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills.

(3) For the purposes of this Order, a function is a “former DCLG function” so far as it was entrusted to the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government immediately before 18th July 2011 and has before the making of this Order been entrusted to the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills.

Transfers of functions

3.—(1) The functions of the Lord Chancellor under or by virtue of the provisions mentioned in Schedule 1 are transferred to the Secretary of State.

(2) The function of the Secretary of State for Defence under article 3 of the Meteorological Office Trading Fund Order 1996(1) (source of loans) is transferred to the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills.

Transfers of property, rights and liabilities

4.—(1) There are transferred to the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills—

(a)all property, rights and liabilities to which the Lord Chancellor is entitled or subject at the coming into force of this Order in connection with any former LC function,

(b)all property, rights and liabilities to which the Secretary of State for Defence is entitled or subject at the coming into force of this Order in connection with any former MoD function, other than property, rights and liabilities transferred by paragraph (2), and

(c)all property, rights and liabilities to which the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government is entitled or subject at the coming into force of this Order in connection with any former DCLG function, other than excepted property, rights and liabilities.

(2) There are transferred to the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government—

(a)all immovable property to which the Secretary of State for Defence is entitled or subject at the coming into force of this Order in connection with any former MoD function, and

(b)all rights and liabilities to which the Secretary of State for Defence is entitled or subject at that time in connection with that property.

(3) For the purposes of paragraph (1)(c), “excepted property, rights and liabilities” means—

(a)all immovable property to which the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government is entitled or subject at the coming into force of this Order in connection with any former DCLG function, and

(b)all rights and liabilities to which that Secretary of State is entitled or subject at that time in connection with that property.

Supplementary

5.—(1) This article applies to—

(a)a former LC function,

(b)a former MoD function,

(c)a former DCLG function, and

(d)anything transferred by article 4.

(2) In this article “the transferor” means—

(a)in relation to a former LC function or anything transferred by article 4(1)(a), the Lord Chancellor,

(b)in relation to a former MoD function or anything transferred by article 4(1)(b) or (2), the Secretary of State for Defence, and

(c)in relation to a former DCLG function or anything transferred by article 4(1)(c), the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government.

(3) In this article “the transferee” means—

(a)in relation to a former LC function, a former MoD function, a former DCLG function or anything transferred by article 4(1), the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, and

(b)in relation to anything transferred by article 4(2), the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government.

(4) This Order does not affect the validity of anything done (or having effect as if done) by or in relation to any of the transferors before the coming into force of this Order.

(5) 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 transferor may, so far as it relates to anything to which this article applies, be continued by or in relation to the transferee.

(6) Anything done (or having effect as if done) by or in relation to the transferor in connection with anything to which this article applies 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 transferee.

(7) Documents or forms printed for use in connection with a former LC function, a former MoD function or a former DCLG function may be used in connection with that function even though they contain, or are to be read as containing, references to the transferor; and for the purposes of the use of any such documents or forms after the coming into force of this Order, those references are to be read as references to the transferee.

(8) Any enactment or instrument passed or made before the coming into force of this Order has effect—

(a)so far as is necessary for the purposes of or in consequence of the transfer to the Secretary of State of any former LC function under article 3(1) as if references to the transferor (and references which are to be read as references to the transferor) were or included references to the Secretary of State, and

(b)so far as is necessary for the purposes of or in consequence of—

(i)the transfer or entrusting to the transferee of any other former LC function, any former MoD function or any former DCLG function, or

(ii)the transfer of anything by article 4,

as if references to the transferor (and references which are to be read as references to the transferor) were or included references to the transferee.

(9) In paragraph (8) “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.

(10) In paragraphs (4) to (8) references to the transferor include references to the department or an officer of the transferor, and references to the transferee or the Secretary of State are to be read accordingly.

Consequential amendments

6.  Schedule 2 has effect.