The Secretaries of State for Transport, Local Government and the Regions and for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs Order 2001

Immovable property outside the United Kingdom

15.—(1) The person from time to time holding office as the Secretary of State for Transport, Local Government and the Regions shall by virtue of that office—

(a) be Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions so long as any immovable property outside the United Kingdom remains vested in that Secretary of State,

(b) be Secretary of State for the Environment so long as any such property remains vested in that Secretary of State(1),

(c) be Minister of Public Building and Works so long as any such property remains vested in that Minister(2), and

(d) 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(3).

(2) Section 5(1) to (3) and (5) of the Minister of Works Act 1942 (as set out with adaptations in Schedule 2 to the Secretary of State for the Environment Order 1970(4)) shall continue to apply to the Secretary of State for Transport, Local Government and the Regions as Minister of Public Building and Works.

(1)

By virtue of art.4(3) of the Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions Order 1997, S.I. 1997/2971.

(2)

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 immovable 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.

(3)

1942 c. 23.

(4)

S.I. 1970/1681.