Child Maintenance and Other Payments Act 2008

Part 2 Transitional provision and savings

55 (1) Anything which—

(a) relates to any function transferred to the Commission by virtue of section 13, and

(b) immediately before commencement, is in the process of being done by or in relation to the Secretary of State,

may be continued by or in relation to the Commission.

(2) Anything done (or having effect as if done) by or in relation to the Secretary of State before commencement for the purpose of, or in connection with, any function transferred by virtue of section 13 shall, so far as is required for continuing its effect after that time, have effect as if done by or in relation to the Commission.

(3) Any enactment, instrument or other document has effect, so far as necessary for the purposes of or in consequence of the transfer effected by section 13, as if any reference to the Secretary of State were a reference to the Commission.

(4) Nothing in section 13, this Schedule or Schedule 2 shall—

(a) affect the validity of anything done by or in relation to the Secretary of State before commencement;

(b) affect the responsibility of the Secretary of State for anything done or omitted before commencement;

(c) enable legal proceedings relating to anything done or omitted before commencement to be brought, or continued, against the Commission.

(5) In this paragraph, “commencement” means the coming into force of section 13.