Article 4 References in enactments, etc.

In the construction and for the purposes of any transferred provision, judgment, decree, order, award, deed, contract, regulation, byelaw, certificate or other document passed or made before the transfer date, any reference to, or which is to be construed as a reference to, the Department of Health and Social Services shall, so far only as may be necessary for the purposes of this Order, be construed as a reference to the Department of Finance and Personnel.

The transfer of functions by this Order shall not affect any order, regulation, rule, appointment, direction, instruction, approval, requirement or authorisation made or given or other thing done by the Department of Health and Social Services before the transfer date, but any such matter shall, if in force immediately before that date, continue in force to the like extent and subject to the like provisions as if it had been duly made, given or done by the Department of Finance and Personnel.

Anything commenced before the transfer date by or under the authority of the Department of Health and Social Services may, so far as it relates to any function transferred by this Order, be carried on or completed by or under the authority of the Department of Finance and Personnel.

Where, at the transfer date, any legal proceedings is pending to which the Department of Health and Social Services is a party and the proceeding relates to any of the functions transferred by this Order, the Department of Finance and Personnel shall be substituted in the proceeding for the Department of Health and Social Services, and the proceeding shall not abate by reason of the substitution.