Article 3 Provision supplemental to the transfer of functions from the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government to the Home Secretary

There are transferred to the Home Secretary all property, rights and liabilities to which the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government is entitled or subject at the coming into force of this Order in connection with a fire and rescue function.

Anything (including 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 Communities and Local Government may, so far as it relates to a fire and rescue function or anything transferred by paragraph (1), be continued by or in relation to the Home Secretary.

Paragraphs (1) and (2) are subject to article 4 (which provides for those paragraphs not to apply in relation to certain matters).

Anything done (or having effect as if done) by or in relation to the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government in connection with a fire and rescue function or anything transferred by paragraph (1) has effect, so far as necessary for continuing its effect after the coming into force of this Order, as if done by or in relation to the Home Secretary.

Documents or forms printed for use in connection with a fire and rescue function may be used in connection with the exercise of that function by the Home Secretary even though they contain, or are to be read as containing, references to the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government; and for the purposes of the use of any such documents or forms in connection with the exercise of that function by the Home Secretary, those references are to be read as references to the Home Secretary.

Any enactment or instrument passed or made before the coming into force of this Order has effect, so far as necessary for the purposes of or in consequence of the entrusting of a fire and rescue function to the Home Secretary or for the purposes of or in consequence of paragraph (1), as if references to the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government (and references which are to be read as references to the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government) were or included references to the Home Secretary.

This article does not affect the validity of anything done (or having effect as if done) by or in relation to the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government before the coming into force of this Order.

In paragraphs (2) to (7)—