The Contracting Out (Functions in relation to the Management of Crown Lands) Order 2003
This Order enables the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport to authorise another person (or that person’s employees) to perform those management functions, in relation to Hampton Court Gardens, Green and Road, and Hampton Court Park and Kensington Gardens which are properties owned by the Sovereign in right of the Crown, and which are vested in the Secretary of State by section 22 of the Crown Lands Act 1851.