(This note is not part of the Order)
This Order enables the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport to authorise another person (or that person’s employees) to perform her functions under sections 2, 5(1) and (3) of the Wellington Museum Act 1947 in relation to the maintenance of Apsley House and using specified parts of it as a museum for the preservation and exhibition to the public of certain chattels associated with the first Duke of Westminster or his times, and for the purpose of Government entertainment and, with the Duke of Wellington’s consent, for any other public purpose not inconsistent with its use as a museum.