Property Services Agency and Crown Suppliers Act 1990

1 Transfer of Property Services Agency and Crown Suppliers

(1) The Secretary of State may make a scheme or schemes which provide for the transfer to any person or persons of such property, rights and liabilities as are specified in or determined in accordance with the scheme, being property, rights or liabilities—

(a) to which a Minister of the Crown (or in the case of copyright Her Majesty) is entitled or subject immediately before the day on which the scheme providing for the transfer comes into force; and

(b) which then subsisted for the purposes of or in connection with or are otherwise attributable (wholly or partly) to either of the Crown services known respectively as the Property Services Agency and the Crown Suppliers.

(2) Without prejudice to the generality of paragraph (b) of subsection (1) above any property, rights or liabilities shall be taken to fall within that paragraph so far as relating to the Property Services Agency or, as the case may be, to the Crown Suppliers if the Secretary of State issues a certificate to that effect.

(3) A scheme under this section may confer or impose such rights and liabilities as appear to the Secretary of State to be requisite for the purpose of converting into a contract between a transferee under the scheme and a Minister of the Crown any arrangement existing immediately before the coming into force of the scheme under which goods or services are being, or are to be, provided for that Minister as part of either of the services mentioned in subsection (1)(b) above.

(4) In subsection (3) above references to a Minister of the Crown include references to a Northern Ireland department.

(5) A scheme under this section may apply to property wherever situated and to property, rights and liabilities whether or not capable of being transferred or assigned by a Minister of the Crown or, as the case may be, by Her Majesty.

(6) A scheme under this section shall come into force on such day as may be specified for that purpose in the scheme; and on that day the property, rights and liabilities to which the scheme applies shall be transferred and vest in accordance with the scheme.

(7) A scheme under this section may contain such supplementary, incidental, consequential or transitional provisions as appear to the Secretary of State to be necessary or expedient; and the Schedule to this Act shall have effect in relation to any such scheme.