3.—(1) Any existing appeal shall be deemed to have been made to the Tribunal and shall continue as an appeal to the Tribunal and anything having any continuing effect done in relation to an existing appeal (including anything done for the purpose of an appeal from a decision made in relation to an existing appeal and anything done in connection with a request for a preliminary ruling of the Court of Justice of the European Communities in relation to an existing appeal) shall be deemed for all purposes to have been done in relation to an appeal to the Tribunal and is not to be invalidated by the commencement of any of the provisions brought into force by this Order.
(2) Without prejudice to the generality of paragraph (1), for the purposes of any existing appeal, anything done by the President of the Competition Commission Appeal Tribunals, the Registrar of Appeal Tribunals, and an appeal tribunal shall be deemed for all purposes to have been done by the President of the Competition Appeal Tribunal, the Registrar of the Competition Appeal Tribunal, and the Tribunal, respectively, and the members of any tribunal constituted by the President of the Competition Commission Appeal Tribunals in relation to an existing appeal in accordance with paragraph 27 of Schedule 7 to the Competition Act 1998 shall be treated as being the members of the Tribunal constituted in accordance with section 14 of the Act for the purposes of the relevant appeal.