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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/transfer-of-functions-chequers-and-dorneywood-estates-order-2014/note",
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  "legislation": "uksi/2014/2708",
  "legislation_title": "The Transfer of Functions (Chequers and Dorneywood Estates) Order 2014",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/transfer-of-functions-chequers-and-dorneywood-estates-order-2014",
  "path": "note",
  "kind": "note",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Explanatory note",
  "text": "(This note is not part of the Order)\nThis Order transfers the statutory functions relating to the Chequers Estate and functions relating to the Dorneywood Estate from the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster to the Lord Privy Seal, and makes provision in connection with those transfers.\nArticle 2 transfers to the Lord Privy Seal the functions of the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster under the Chequers Estate Act 1917.\nArticle 3 transfers to the Lord Privy Seal the functions of the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster under the Dorneywood Thomson Endowment Trust Fund ‘B’. This Fund was established by Baron Courtauld-Thomson, when he gave the Dorneywood Estate to the nation, for the purpose of maintaining the Estate.\nArticle 4 transfers property, rights and liabilities in relation to the functions transferred by articles 2 and 3 to the Lord Privy Seal.\nArticle 5 makes supplemental provision in connection with articles 2 to 4.\nArticle 6 makes consequential amendments.\nNothing in this Order alters the functions of the Welsh Ministers, the Scottish Ministers or the devolved authorities in Northern Ireland.\nA full impact assessment has not been produced for this instrument as no impact on the private or voluntary sectors is foreseen.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
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    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2014/2708/note",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T00:00:05.287500+00:00"
  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
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