8(1)Enactments and instruments passed or made before the coming into operation of this Part of this Schedule shall have effect, so far as may be necessary for the purpose or in consequence of the transfers effected by this Part as if—N.I.
(a)references to the Department or to the Secretary of State were references to the Lord Chancellor; and
(b)references to the Department of Finance and Personnel were references to the Treasury; and
(c)references to moneys appropriated by Measure of the Northern Ireland Assembly were references to money provided by Parliament and references to the Consolidated Fund of Northern Ireland were references to the Consolidated Fund of the United Kingdom.
(2)This Part of this Schedule shall not affect the validity of anything done (or having effect as done) by or in relation to the Department, the Department of Finance and Personnel or the Secretary of State before the coming into operation of this Part, and anything which at the time of the coming into operation of this Part is in process of being done by or in relation to either of those Departments or the Secretary of State may, if it relates to a function transferred by this Part, be continued by or in relation to the Lord Chancellor or the Treasury, as the case may require.
(3)Anything done (or having effect as done) by the Department, the Department of Finance and Personnel or the Secretary of State for the purpose of a function transferred by this Part of this Schedule, if in force at the coming into operation of this Part, shall have effect, as far as required for continuing its effect after the coming into operation of this Part, as if done by the Lord Chancellor or by the Treasury, as the case may require.
(4)The amendments specified in Part III of this Schedule are without prejudice to the generality of this paragraph.