The Transfer of Functions (Arts, Libraries and National Heritage) Order 1983

Supplemental

8.  The Documentary Evidence Act 1868 shall apply to the Lord President as if his name were included in the first column of the Schedule to that Act and as if he or any person authorised to act on his behalf were mentioned in the second column of that Schedule, and as if the regulations referred to in that Act included any document issued by the Lord President.

9.  In Note 2 to Schedule 2 to the Parliamentary Commissioner Act 1967 (by virtue of which the reference to the Lord President's Office in the list of departments subject to investigation does not include the Privy Council Office), after “Office”, in the first place where it occurs, insert “includes the Office of Arts and Libraries but”.

10.—(1) The consequential amendments specified in Schedule 2 to this Order shall have effect.

(2) Section 2(2) of the Public Libraries and Museums Act 1964 (as amended by the Transfer of Functions (Arts, Libraries and National Heritage) Order 1981) shall be construed in relation to the Library Advisory Council for England as if the reference to a Department of the Secretary of State were a reference to the Office of the Lord President.

11.—(1) Subject to any express amendment made by this Order, any enactment or instrument passed or made before the coming into operation of this Order shall have effect so far as may be necessary for the purpose or in consequence of the transfers effected by this Order as if any reference to the Secretary of State or to his Department or to an officer of his (including any reference which is to be construed as such a reference) were a reference to the Lord President or to his Office or to an officer of his, as the case may require.

(2) This Order shall not affect the validity of anything done (or having effect as if done) by or in relation to the Secretary of State before the coming into operation of this Order, and anything which at the time of the coming into operation of this Order is in process of being done by or in relation to the Secretary of State may, if it relates to any functions transferred by this Order, be continued by or in relation to the Lord President or, as the case may be, the Lord President and the Secretary of State.

(3) Any authority, approval, consent or direction given (or having effect as if given) or other thing whatsoever done (or having effect as if done) by the Secretary of State for the purpose of any functions transferred by this Order, if in force at the coming into operation of this Order, shall have effect, so far as required for continuing its effect after the coming into operation of this Order, as if made or done by the Lord President or the Lord President and the Secretary of State.

(4) In relation to the transfers effected by Article 2(3) or 7 above, references in this Article to the Secretary of State shall be construed as references to the Secretary of State for Education and Science.