{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/transfer-of-functions-tourism-and-small-businesses-order-1985/note",
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  "legislation": "uksi/1985/1778",
  "legislation_title": "The Transfer of Functions (Tourism and Small Businesses) Order 1985",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/transfer-of-functions-tourism-and-small-businesses-order-1985",
  "path": "note",
  "kind": "note",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Explanatory note",
  "text": "This Order:—\n(a)transfers to the Secretary of State the functions of the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry and the Board of Trade under the Development of Tourism Act 1969 and subordinate legislation made under that Act; and\n(b)transfers to the Secretary of State for Employment the property, rights and liabilities to which the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry was entitled or subject in connection with the functions exercisable by him in relation to tourism and small businesses before 2nd September 1985 and entrusted before the making of the Order to the Secretary of State for Employment.\nThis Order also makes supplemental and consequential provision in relation to such transfers.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1985/1778/note",
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  },
  "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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