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Transitional provisions relating to functions of existing public service authorities

11.—(1) Any power that, immediately before the commencement of this Order, is vested in an existing public service authority (that is to say, the Governor, acting on the advice of the Public Service Commission established by the existing Orders, or the Commissioner of Police) and that, under the existing Orders is then delegated to some other person or authority shall, as from the commencement of this Order and so far as is consistent with the provisions of the Constitution, be deemed to have been delegated to such person or authority in accordance with those provisions.

(2) Any matter that, immediately before the commencement of this Order, is pending before an existing public service authority shall, so far as is consistent with the provisions of the Constitution, be continued before the corresponding public service authority established by the Constitution, and any matter that, immediately before the commencement of this Order, is pending before a person or authority to whom power to deal with that matter has been delegated by an existing public service authority shall, so far as is consistent with the provisions of the Constitution, be continued before the person or authority to whom that power was delegated:

Provided that, where the hearing of a disciplinary proceeding has begun but has not been completed immediately before the commencement of this Order, the continued hearing shall not be held before any person unless the hearing that has already taken place was also held before him; and where, by virtue of this proviso, the hearing cannot be continued it shall be re-commenced.