CXLVIActions, &c. not to abate, but to continue for or against Metropolitan Board of Works.
No Action, Suit, Prosecution, or other Proceeding whatsoever, commenced or carried on by or against the said Commissioners, shall abate or be discontinued or prejudicially affected by the Determination of the Powers of such Commissioners, but shall continue and take effect in favour of or against the Metropolitan Board of Works in the same Manner in all respects as the same would have continued and taken effect in relation to the said Commissioners if this Act had not been passed, and the Powers of the said Commissioners had continued in full Force ; and all Decrees and Orders made, and all Fines, Amerciaments, and Penalties imposed and incurred, respectively, previously to the Commencement of this Act, shall and may be enforced, levied, recovered, and proceeded for, and all administrative Proceedings commenced previously to the Commencement of this Act shall and may be continued, proceeded with, and completed, the Metropolitan Board of Works being, in reference to the Matters aforesaid, in all respects substituted in the Place of the said Commissioners.