The Contracting Out (Functions in relation to Apsley House) Order 2002
This Order enables the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport to authorise another person (or that person’s employees) to perform her functions under sections 2, 5(1) and 5(3) of the Wellington Museum Act 1947 in relation to the maintenance of Apsley House and using specified parts of it as a museum for the preservation and exhibition to the public of certain chattels associated with the first Duke of Wellington or his times, and for the purpose of Government entertainment and, with the Duke of Wellington’s consent, for any other public purpose not inconsistent with its use as a museum.