Article 4 Education: provisions supplementary to article 3
All property, rights and liabilities to which the Secretary of State for Education is entitled or subject at the coming into force of this Order are hereby transferred to the Secretary of State for Education and Employment.
Any contract, offer or other thing which—
has been, or has effect as if, made or done by or in relation to the Secretary of State for Education, and
is in force at the coming into force of this Order,
shall have effect as if made or done by or in relation to the Secretary of State for Education and Employment.
Without prejudice to paragraph (2), this Order shall not affect the validity of anything done by or in relation to the Secretary of State for Education before the coming into force of this Order.
Anything (including any legal proceedings) in the process of being done by or in relation to the Secretary of State for Education at the coming into force of this Order may be continued by or in relation to the Secretary of State for Education and Employment.
Subject to article 11, any Act passed or subordinate legislation 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 article 3(1), as if any reference to the Secretary of State for Education, to the Department for Education or to an officer of the Secretary of State for Education (including any reference which is to be construed as such a reference) were a reference to the Secretary of State, to the Department for Education and Employment, or, as the case may be, to an officer of the Secretary of State.
Subject to paragraph (5), any instrument 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 article 3(1) or (2), as if any reference to the Secretary of State for Education, to the Department for Education or to an officer of the Secretary of State for Education (including any reference which is to be construed as such a reference) were a reference to the Secretary of State for Education and Employment, to the Department for Education and Employment or, or the case may be, to an officer of the Secretary of State for Education and Employment.
Documents or forms printed for use in connection with any function transferred by article 3(1) or (2) 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 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 Education and Employment.