Ministry of Health Act 1919

SCHEDULES.

Section 3.

FIRST SCHEDULE Transitory Provisions

1 In the construction and for the purposes of any Act of Parliament, judgment, decree, order, award, deed, contract, regulation, byelaw, or other document passed or made before the transfer to or from the Minister from or to any other Government department of any powers or duties by or under this Act, but so far only as may be necessary for the purpose of such transfer, the name of the Minister or of the other Government department shall be substituted for the name of the other Government department or of the Minister, as the case may require.

2 Where anything has been commenced by or under the authority of any other Government department or the Minister before the transfer to the Minister or another Government department of any powers or duties by or under this Act, and such thing is in relation to the powers or duties so transferred, such thing may be carried on and completed by or under the authority of the Minister or the other Government department, as the case may be.

3 Where at the time of the transfer of any powers or duties by or under this Act any legal proceeding is pending to which any Government department or the Minister is a party, and such proceeding has reference to the powers and duties transferred by or under this Act, the Minister or the other Government department shall be substituted in such proceeding for the other Government department or the Minister, as the case may be, and such proceeding shall not abate by reason of the substitution.

Section 11.

SECOND SCHEDULE Repeals

Session and Chapter.	Short Title.	Extent of Repeal.
34 & 35 Vict. c. 70.	The Local Government Board Act, 1871.	Sections three, four, five and six.
1 & 2 Geo. 5. c. 55.	The National Insurance Act, 1911.	Paragraph (5) of and the proviso to subsection (2) of section sixteen, subsections (1), (2), (3) and (4) of section fifty-seven, and section fifty-eight, except so far as those sections are applied to the Scottish Insurance Commissioners and the Irish Insurance Commissioners.
		In paragraph (1) of section eighty-one the words " shall be appointed by the Treasury, and "
		Subsection (1) of section eighty-two.
		In subsection (1) of section eight-three, the words " as soon " as may be after the passing " of this Act, in accordance " with regulations made by the " Treasury," and the words from " of the several bodies of Commissioners" to the end of the subsection.