The Northern Ireland (Modification of Enactments—No. 1) Order 1973

Supplemental

11.—(1) Paragraphs (2) to (6) shall have effect in connection with the transfer of any functions by this Order.

(2) This Order shall not affect the validity of anything done by or in relation to the transferor before the appointed day.

(3) Anything which, immediately before the appointed day, is in process of being done by or in relation to the transferor (including, in particular, any legal proceedings to which the transferor is a party) may, if it relates to any functions, property, rights or liabilities transferred by this Order be continued by or in relation to the transferee.

(4) Any authorisation given (by way of approval or otherwise), requirement imposed or appointment made by the transferor in connection with any functions transferred by this Order shall, if in force on the appointed day, have effect as if given, imposed or made by the transferee in so far as that is required for continuing its effect after that day.

(5) Any enactment, instrument or agreement passed or made before the appointed day shall have effect, so far as may be necessary for the purpose or in consequence of the transfers effected by this Order, as if any reference to the transferor or an officer of the transferor (including a reference which is to be construed as such a reference) were a reference to the transferee or an officer of the transferee, as the case may require.

(6) Documents or forms printed or duplicated for use in connection with any functions transferred by this Order may be so used notwithstanding that they contain references to the transferor or an officer of the transferor and those references shall be construed as references to the transferee or an officer of the transferee, as the case may be.

(7) Where—

(a) by virtue of section 7(5) of the Constitution Act, a Ministry of Northern Ireland becomes a Northern Ireland department; and

(b) that department has not a seal;

the seal of that Ministry may, until the department is provided with a seal, be used for any purpose as if it were the seal of that department.