Article 3 Exercise of the Parliamentary corporation’s functions until 1st June 1999

In the period from the coming into force of section 21 of the Act (establishment of the Parliamentary corporation)^f1 until 1st June 1999 the functions of the Parliamentary corporation (other than any function relating to the appointment of the Clerk and the other staff of the Parliament) shall be exercisable instead by the Secretary of State.

During that period, all rights and liabilities to which the Parliamentary corporation is entitled or subject in connection with those functions shall be treated as rights and liabilities of the Secretary of State.

So far as may be necessary for the purpose or in consequence of the exercise of any function of the Parliamentary corporation by the Secretary of State by virtue of this article, references in any enactment, prerogative instrument and any other instrument or document to the Parliamentary corporation shall be read as if they were or included references to the Secretary of State.

Anything (including legal proceedings) which, at the end of the period mentioned in paragraph (1), is in the process of being done by or in relation to the Secretary of State may, so far as it relates to any function of the Parliamentary corporation exercisable by him under that paragraph, be continued by or in relation to the Parliamentary corporation.

Anything done (or having effect as if done) by or in relation to the Secretary of State for the purposes of or in connection with any function of the Parliamentary corporation exercisable by him under paragraph (1) shall, if in force at the end of the period mentioned in that paragraph, have effect as if done by or in relation to the Parliamentary corporation in so far as that is required for continuing its effect after that time.