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This Order enables the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster to exercise any function of the Secretary of State arising under the proviso to section 9(2) of the Civil Defence Act 1948. The effect of the Order is that the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster will be able, in the same way as a Secretary of State, to exercise any function under the Act which has not been specifically designated by Order in Council as the function of another Minister.