The Transfer of Functions (Museum and Other Staff) Order 2011

Transfer of certain functions relating to certain museum and other staff

2.  The functions of the Treasury under the following enactments are transferred to the Secretary of State—

(a) section 2(1)(f) of the Imperial War Museum Act 1920 (consent to appointment, and to terms and conditions, of officers of Board of Trustees of Imperial War Museum)(1);

(b) section 6 of the British Museum Act 1963 (functions relating to appointment, and terms and conditions, of staff of British Museum and Natural History Museum)(2);

(c) paragraph 7(4) of the Schedule to the Public Lending Right Act 1979 (approval in relation to certain directions and determinations by Registrar of Public Lending Right)(3).

(1)

1920 c. 16. Subsection (1) of section 2 was numbered as such by the Museums and Galleries Act 1992 (c. 44), Schedule 8, paragraph 7(2).

(2)

1963 c. 24. Section 6 is applied in relation to the Natural History Museum and its Trustees by section 8(3) of the same Act. Section 8(3) was amended by the Museums and Galleries Act 1992, Schedule 8, paragraph 1(3).

(3)

1979 c. 10. The function of the Treasury under paragraph 7(4) was transferred from the Minister for the Civil Service by S.I. 1981/1670, article 2.