The Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food (Dissolution) Order 2002

Transfer of property, rights and liabilities

4.—(1) Subject to paragraphs (2) to (5), all property, rights and liabilities to which the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food is entitled or subject immediately before the coming into force of this Order are hereby transferred to the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs.

(2) Subject to paragraphs (3) and (5), all property, rights and liabilities to which the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food or a Secretary of State is entitled or subject immediately before the coming into force of this Order in connection with any functions transferred by article 2(3) or (4) or article 3(5), (6), (7), (8), (9) or (10) of this Order are hereby transferred to the Secretary of State to whom the transferred function is entrusted on the coming into force of this Order.

(3) Paragraphs (1) and (2) do not apply in relation to—

(a) any property outside the United Kingdom which is not capable of transfer by this Order; and

(b) rights and liabilities of the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food or a Secretary of State in relation to any such property.

(4) The person from time to time holding office as Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs shall by virtue of that office be Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food so long as any property, rights or liabilities of the kind mentioned in paragraph (3) remain vested in that Minister.

(5) Paragraph (2) does not operate so as to transfer property, rights or liabilities to which a Secretary of State is entitled or subject immediately before the coming into force of this Order in connection with a function if that Secretary of State is the Secretary of State to whom the function is entrusted on the coming into force of this Order.