Article 116 Existing offices and officers

Any office established by or under the Virgin Islands (Constitution) Order 1976^f1 and existing immediately before the appointed day shall on and after that day, so far as consistent with this Constitution, continue as if it had been established by or under this Constitution.

Any person who immediately before the appointed day holds or is acting in any office continued by virtue of subsection (1) shall, on and after that day, continue to hold or act in that office as if he or she had been appointed to hold or act in it in accordance with or under this Constitution.

Any person to whom subsection (2) applies who, before the appointed day, has made any oath or affirmation required to be made before assuming the functions of his or her office shall be deemed to have made any like oath or affirmation so required by this Constitution or any other law.

The person who, immediately before the appointed day, holds the office of Chief Minister shall, on and after that day, perform the functions of the office of Premier in accordance with this Constitution; and (in accordance with section 1(3)(a)) until the day after the polling in the first general election after the appointed day that office shall continue to be called Chief Minister.