Continuity of exercise of functionsE+W
2.—(1) None of the following, that is to say—
(a)the abolition of the CCW,
(b)the transfer, modification, repeal or revocation by this Order of any function, or
(c)the transfer by this Order of any property, rights or liabilities,
affects the validity of anything done before the abolition, transfer, modification, repeal or revocation takes effect.
(2) Anything (including, without limitation, legal proceedings) which, at the transfer date, is in the process of being done by or in relation to a transferor in the exercise of, or in connection with, a transferred function may be continued by or in relation to the transferee.
(3) Anything done by or in relation to a transferor before the transfer date in the exercise of, or otherwise in connection with, a transferred function is, so far as is required for continuing its effect on and after that date, to have effect as if done by or in relation to the transferee.
(4) Any reference to a transferor (and any reference which is to be read as a reference to a transferor) in any document constituting or relating to anything to which the provisions of this paragraph apply is, so far as is required for giving effect to those provisions, to be treated as a reference to the transferee.