Explanatory note
(This note is not part of the Order)
This Order extends the scope of The Queen Elizabeth II Conference Centre Trading Fund Order 1997, which established The Queen Elizabeth II Conference Centre as a trading fund with effect from 1st April 1997. It adds
the letting of space within the curtilage of, and within and on, The Queen Elizabeth II Conference Centre; and
the provision of consultancy advice connected with conference and related services, whether undertaken at The Queen Elizabeth II Conference Centre or elsewhere,
to the operations to be financed by means of the fund.
The Order also substitutes the Office of the Deputy Prime Minister, which now has responsibility for The Queen Elizabeth II Conference Centre, for the reference in the 1997 Order to the former Department of the Environment.