Article 5 Supplementary provisions in relation to functions transferredI1

There are hereby transferred to the Minister all rights and liabilities to which, immediately before the commencement of this Order, the Treasury was entitled or subject in connection with any functions transferred by this Order.

Any enactment or instrument passed or made before the commencement of this Order shall have effect, so far as necessary for the purposes of or in consequence of the transfers effected by this Order, as if any reference to the Treasury or an officer of the Treasury (including any reference which is to be construed as such a reference) were a reference to the Minister or an officer of the Minister, as the case may be.

This Order shall not affect the validity of anything done by or in relation to the Treasury before its commencement; and anything (including legal proceedings) which at the commencement of this Order is in process of being done by or in relation to the Treasury may, if it relates to any of the functions, rights and liabilities transferred by this Order, be continued by or in relation to the Minister.

Any approval, authorisation, consent, delegation, direction or appointment given or made or other thing whatever done by the Treasury for the purposes of any of the functions transferred by this Order shall, if in force at the commencement of this Order, continue in force and have effect as if similarly given, made or done by the Minister.