Article 4 Supplemental

There are hereby transferred to the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry all property, rights and liabilities to which the Minster for the Civil Service or the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster is entitled or subject, at the coming into force of this Order, in connection with the functions transferred by this Order.

Any legal proceedings to which the Minister for the Civil Service or the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster is a party at the coming into force of this Order may, if they relate to functions, property, rights or liabilities transferred by this Order, be continued by or against the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry.

This Order shall not affect the validity of anything done (or having effect as if done) by or in relation to the Minister for the Civil Service or the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster before the coming into force of this Order; and anything which, at the coming into force of this Order, is in the process of being done by or in relation to the Minister for the Civil Service or the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster may, if it relates to functions, property, rights or liabilities transferred by this Order, be continued by or in relation to the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry.

Any approval, consent, direction, or appointment given or made, or other thing done, by the Minister for the Civil Service or the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster in the exercise of any functions transferred by this Order (or having effect as if so given, made or done) shall, if in force at the coming into force of this Order, continue in force and have effect as if similarly given, made or done by the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry.

In this article references to functions transferred by this Order include references to functions which, by virtue of this Order, are no longer exercisable concurrently by the Minister for the Civil Service or the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster.