The Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions Order 1997

Transfers of property, rights and liabilities etc.

4.—(1) Subject to paragraph (3), all property, rights and liabilities to which the Secretary of State for the Environment is entitled or subject at the coming into force of this Order are hereby transferred to the Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions.

(2) All property, rights and liabilities to which the Secretary of State for Transport is entitled or subject at the coming into force of this Order are hereby transferred to the Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions.

(3) Paragraph (1) does not apply to immoveable property outside the United Kingdom to which the Secretary of State for the Environment is so entitled or to any rights or liabilities of that Secretary of State in relation to that property.

(4) The person from time to time holding office as the Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions shall by virtue of that office—

(a) be Secretary of State for the Environment so long as any property remains vested in that Secretary of State by virtue of paragraph (3) above,

(b) be Minister of Public Building and Works so long as any property remains vested in that Minister(1), and

(c) be First Commissioner of Works, so long as the Commissioners of Works have not been dissolved by Order in Council under the Minister of Works Act 1942(2),

and section 5(1) to (3) and (5) of that Act as set out with adaptations in Schedule 2 to the Secretary of State for the Environment Order 1970(3) shall continue to apply to him as Minister of Public Building and Works.

(1)

By virtue of the Secretary of State for the Environment Order 1970 (S.I. 1970/1681), all property, rights and liabilities of the Minister of Public Building and Works were transferred to the Secretary of State for the Environment except immoveable property outside the United Kingdom to which the Minister was entitled and rights and liabilities in relation to that property. Art.2(2) of that Order provides that the person holding office as Secretary of State for the Environment shall be Minister of Public Building and Works so long as any such property remains vested in that Minister.

(2)

1942 c. 23.

(3)

S.I. 1970/1681.