Functions passing to the Secretary of State for International Trade: supplementary
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1
For the purposes of this article, a function is a “trade function” so far as it was entrusted to the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills immediately before 13th July 2016 and has before the making of this Order been entrusted to the Secretary of State for International Trade.
2
There are transferred to the Secretary of State for International Trade all property, rights and liabilities to which the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills is entitled or subject at the coming into force of this Order in connection with a trade function.
3
Anything (including legal proceedings) which, at the coming into force of this Order, is in the process of being done by or in relation to the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills may, so far as it relates to a trade function or anything transferred by paragraph (2), be continued by or in relation to the Secretary of State for International Trade.
4
Anything done (or having effect as if done) by or in relation to the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills in connection with a trade function or anything transferred by paragraph (2) has effect, so far as necessary for continuing its effect after the coming into force of this Order, as if done by or in relation to the Secretary of State for International Trade.
5
Documents or forms printed for use in connection with a trade function may be used in connection with that function even though they contain, or are to be read as containing, references to the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills; and for the purposes of the use of any such documents or forms after the coming into force of this Order, those references are to be read as references to the Secretary of State for International Trade.
6
Any enactment or instrument passed or made before the coming into force of this Order has effect, so far as is necessary for the purposes of or in consequence of—
a
the entrusting to the Secretary of State for International Trade of a trade function, or
b
the transfer of anything by paragraph (2),
as if references to (and references which are to be read as references to) the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills were or included references to the Secretary of State for International Trade.
7
In paragraphs (3) to (6), references to the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills include references to the department or an officer of the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills; and references to the Secretary of State for International Trade are to be read accordingly.