Article 10 Work permit functions
In this article “the work permit functions” means the functions which were entrusted to the Secretary of State for Education and Employment immediately before 7th June 2001 and have, before the making of this Order, been entrusted to the Secretary of State for the Home Department.
All property, rights and liabilities to which the Secretary of State for Education and Employment is entitled or subject at the coming into force of this Order in connection with the work permit functions are hereby transferred to the Secretary of State for the Home Department.
Any contract, offer, warrant or other thing which—
has been, or has effect as if, made, issued or done by or in relation to the Secretary of State for Education and Employment in connection with the work permit functions or anything transferred by paragraph (2), and
is in force at the coming into force of this Order,
shall have effect as if made, issued or done by or in relation to the Secretary of State for the Home Department.
Without prejudice to paragraph (3), anything (including any legal proceedings) which, at the coming into force of this order, is in the process of being done by or in relation to the Secretary of State for Education and Employment may, so far as it relates to—
any of the work permit functions, or
anything to which paragraph (2) or (3) relates,
be continued by or in relation to the Secretary of State for the Home Department.
Subject to article 12, any enactment or instrument passed or made before the coming into force of this Order shall have effect, so far as may be necessary for the purposes of or in consequence of the entrusting to the Secretary of State for the Home Department of the work permit functions, as if any reference to the Secretary of State for Education and Employment, to the Department for Education and Employment or to an officer of the Secretary of State for Education and Employment (including any reference which is to be construed as such a reference) were a reference to the Secretary of State for the Home Department, to the Home Department or, as the case may be, to an officer of the Secretary of State for the Home Department.
Documents or forms printed for use in connection with any of the work permit functions may be used in connection with those functions notwithstanding that they contain, or are to be construed as containing, references to the Secretary of State for Education and Employment, to the Department for Education and Employment or to an officer of the Secretary of State for Education and Employment; and for the purposes of the use of any such documents or forms after the coming into force of this Order, those references shall be construed as references to the Secretary of State for the Home Department, to the Home Department or, as the case may be, to an officer of the Secretary of State for the Home Department.