Commentary Part 1: Local Government Chapter 4: Transfer and delegation of functions to certain authorities Section 17: Transfer schemes
51.Subsection (1) allows the Secretary of State to make a scheme for the transfer of property, rights or liabilities to a permitted authority from a body or person from whom a relevant local public function has been transferred through an order under section 15. Subsections (2) allows a Minister to make a scheme for the transfer from the Crown to a permitted authority of property, rights or liabilities as a consequence of a delegation, or variation of a delegation, to a permitted authority under section 16. A Minister of the Crown may also make a scheme for the transfer of property, rights or liabilities from a permitted authority to the Crown as a consequence of variation or revocation of a delegation under section 16.