Consequential amendments

6.—(1) The enactments and instruments specified in the Schedule to this Order shall have effect with the amendments there specified.

(2) Subject to paragraph (1) above, any enactment or instrument passed or made before the coming into force of this Order shall have effect so far as necessary for the purpose or in consequence of the transfers effected by this Order as if—

(a)for any reference to the Secretary of State or to the Secretary of State for Education and Science (including, in either case, any reference which is to be construed as such a reference) there were substituted a reference to the Minister; and

(b)for any reference to the Department of Education and Science or any officer of that Department (including, in either case, any reference which is to be construed as such a reference) there were substituted a reference to the Office or an officer of the Office.

(3) Subject to paragraphs (1) and (2) above, any enactment or instrument passed or made before the coming into force of this Order shall have effect, so far as may be necessary for the purpose or in consequence of article 5 above, as if for any reference to the Secretary of State for Education and Science, the Department of Education and Science or any officer of that Department (including, in each case, any reference which is to be construed as such a reference) there were substituted a reference to the Secretary of State for Education or, as the case may be, the Department for Education or an officer of that Department.