The Transfer of Functions (Arts, Libraries and National Heritage) Order 1983

4.—(1) Subject to paragraph (3) below, the functions of the Secretary of State under the Public Libraries and Museums Act 1964, so far as they are exercisable in relation to England, are hereby transferred to the Lord President.

(2) Without prejudice to paragraph (1) above, the functions of the Secretary of State under paragraph 4 of Schedule 1 to that Act, so far as they are exercisable on the dissolution of a joint board whose area does not include any part of Wales, are hereby transferred to the Lord President.

(3) The functions of the Secretary of State under section 9 of that Act shall be exercisable by the Lord President concurrently with the Secretary of State.