The Transfer of Property etc. (Scottish Ministers) Order 1999

Transfer of land and corporeal moveable property

2.—(1) Whenever a function of a Minister of the Crown becomes a transferred function, there shall transfer to and vest in the Scottish Ministers all rights and interests belonging to a Minister of the Crown or government department in any land and corporeal moveable property (other than excepted property) which–

(a) is used wholly or mainly for or in connection with that transferred function; or

(b) is not used for or in connection with any function of a Minister of the Crown but which was acquired in the exercise of that transferred function or, when last used for or in connection with any function of a Minister of the Crown, was so used wholly or mainly for or in connection with that transferred function.

(2) There are hereby transferred to and vested in the Scottish Ministers all rights and interests belonging to a Minister of the Crown or government department in any land and corporeal moveable property (other than excepted property) which is used, immediately before the principal appointed day, wholly or mainly for or in connection with functions which will on that day be non-ministerial functions.

(3) Paragraph (1) does not apply to any rights and interests of a Minister of the Crown or government department in any land or corporeal moveable property which–

(a) was acquired under section 39 of the Forestry Act 1967(1) (power of Minister to acquire and dispose of land) or that section as extended by section 40 of that Act (compulsory purchase of land); or

(b) is used for or in connection with the exercise of the functions of the Forestry Commissioners(2).

(1)

1967 c. 10.

(2)

The Forestry Commissioners were constituted under the Forestry Acts 1919 to 1945 and are continued in existence by section 1 of the Forestry Act 1967 (c. 10).