4.—(1) In any statutory provision or document any reference to the Board shall, in relation to any time after the appointed day, be construed as a reference to the Department.
(2) Sub-paragraph (1) applies unless contrary provision is made by this Act or the context otherwise requires.
(3) Nothing in this Act affects the validity of anything done by, or in relation to, the Board before the appointed day.
(4) Anything which before the appointed day was done by or in relation to the Board shall, if in effect immediately before that day, continue to have effect to the same extent and subject to the same provisions as if it had been done by, or in relation to, the Department.
(5) Anything (including any legal proceedings) in the process of being done by or in relation to the Board immediately before the appointed day may be continued by or in relation to the Department.
(6) Any byelaws made by the Board under a provision of the Fisheries Act (Northern Ireland) 1966 (c. 17) amended by Part 2 of this Schedule which are in force immediately before the appointed day shall have effect as if they were regulations made by the Department under that provision as so amended (and so may be amended or revoked by such regulations).