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Article 5

SCHEDULE 3Transitional and saving provisions

General savings

1.  The amendments made by this Order do not affect the validity of anything done (or having effect as if done) by or in relation to the URA, the CNT or the Housing Corporation before the commencement date.

Functions transferred from the URA or CNT to the HCA or the Welsh Ministers

2.—(1) Anything which, immediately before the commencement date, is in the process of being done by or in relation to the URA or CNT may, so far as it relates to any function transferred by virtue of this Order from the URA or CNT to the HCA or the Welsh Ministers, be continued, on and after that date, by or in relation to the HCA or (as the case may be) the Welsh Ministers.

(2) Anything done (or having effect as if done) by or in relation to the URA or CNT for the purposes of or in connection with any function transferred by virtue of this Order from the URA or CNT to the HCA or the Welsh Ministers shall, if in force or effective immediately before the commencement date, have effect as if done by or in relation to the HCA or (as the case may be) the Welsh Ministers so far as that is required for continuing its effect on and after the commencement date.

(3) Any enactment, instrument or other document passed or made before the commencement date shall have effect, so far as necessary for the purposes of or in consequence of sub-paragraph (1) or (2), as if references (however expressed) to the URA or CNT were references to the HCA or (as the case may be) the Welsh Ministers.

(4) The references in sub-paragraphs (1) and (2) to things done include references to things omitted to be done.

(5) The references in sub-paragraphs (1) to (3) to the HCA or the Welsh Ministers are to be read as including references to them acting in a particular capacity or in relation to particular matters.

Functions of the Housing Corporation transferred to the HCA, the Regulator of Social Housing or the Welsh Ministers

3.—(1) Anything which, immediately before the commencement date, is in the process of being done by or in relation to the Housing Corporation may, so far as it relates to any function transferred by virtue of this Order from the Housing Corporation to the HCA, the Regulator of Social Housing or the Welsh Ministers, be continued, on and after that date, by or in relation to the HCA, the Regulator of Social Housing or the Welsh Ministers, as the case may be.

(2) Anything done (or having effect as if done) by or in relation to the Housing Corporation for the purposes of or in connection with any function transferred by virtue of this Order from the Housing Corporation to the HCA, the Regulator of Social Housing or the Welsh Ministers shall, if in force or effective immediately before the commencement date, have effect as if done by or in relation to the HCA, the Regulator of Social Housing or the Welsh Ministers, as the case may be, so far as that is required for continuing its effect on and after the commencement date.

(3) Any enactment, instrument or other document passed or made before the commencement date shall have effect, so far as necessary for the purposes of or in consequence of sub-paragraph (1) or (2), as if references (however expressed) to the Housing Corporation were references to the HCA, the Regulator of Social Housing or the Welsh Ministers, as the case may be.

(4) The references in sub-paragraphs (1) and (2) to things done include references to things omitted to be done.

Other provisions

4.—(1) The Housing (Service Charge Loans) Regulations 1992(1) shall, on and after the commencement date, apply in relation to any loan given by the Housing Corporation under regulation 5 of those Regulations before the commencement date as if the loan had been made by the HCA.

(2) Anything done by the Housing Corporation in relation to such a loan shall, if in force or effective immediately before the commencement date, have effect as if done by the HCA so far as that is required for continuing its effect on and after the commencement date.