Article 18

Where any legal proceedings are pending on 1st April 1965 to which the council of a dissolved county or county borough is a party and the matters which are the subject of the proceedings have been transferred by or under this Order, those proceedings may be continued by or against the council of the authority to which those matters have been so transferred and may be amended in such manner as may be necessary or proper in consequence of this Order.

Any determination, requirement, consent, permission, exemption, notice or other thing made, imposed, given, served or done by, to or on a dissolved county or county borough council or the children's officer of such a council which relates to a person, function, power, right or liability transferred by or under this Order shall, if it has effect immediately before the transfer, have the like effect thereafter as if it had been made, imposed, given, served or done by, to or on the council or children's officer of the successor authority.

Any legal proceedings to which the council of an altered county is a party and which are pending when the matters which are the subject of the proceedings are transferred by or under this Order to a successor authority, may be continued by or against the successor authority, and may be amended in such manner as may be necessary or proper in consequence of this Order.

Any determination, requirement, consent, permission, exemption, notice or other thing made, imposed, given, served or done by, to or on the council of an altered county which relates to a person, function, power, right or liability transferred by or under this Order to a successor authority, shall, if it has effect immediately before the transfer, have the like effect thereafter as if it had been made, imposed, given, served or done by, to or on the successor authority.