The Local Government (Children) Order 1974

11.—(1) Where any legal proceedings are pending on the specified date to which the council of a dissolved authority is a party and the matters which are the subject of the proceedings have been transferred by or under this order, those proceedings may be continued by or against the successor authority to which those matters have been so transferred and may be amended in such manner as may be necessary or proper in consequence of this order.

(2) Any determination, requirement, consent, permission, exemption, notice or other thing made, imposed, given, served or done by, to or on a dissolved authority or the director of social services of such an authority which relates to a person, function, power, right or liability transferred by or under this order shall, if it has effect immediately before the transfer, have the like effect thereafter as if it had been made, imposed, given, served or done by, to or on the successor authority, or the director of social services of such authority.