Article 6 Existing offices and officers

Any office established by or under the former Constitution and existing immediately before the appointed day shall on and after that day, so far as consistent with the Constitution, continue as if it had been established by or under the Constitution.

Any person who immediately before the appointed day holds or is acting in an office continued by virtue of subsection (1) shall, on and after that day, continue to hold or act in that office or the corresponding office established by the Constitution as if he or she had been appointed to hold or act in it in accordance with or under the Constitution; but any person who under the law in force immediately before the appointed day would have been required to vacate his or her office at the expiration of any period shall vacate that office at the expiration of that period.

Any person to whom subsection (2) applies who, before the appointed day, has made any oath required to be made before assuming the functions of his or her office shall be deemed to have made any like oath so required by the Constitution or any other law.

The person who immediately before the appointed day holds or is acting in the office of Financial Secretary shall, on and after that day, hold or act in the office of Director of Finance as if he or she had been appointed to hold or act in that office under the Constitution.