The Local Better Regulation Office (Dissolution and Transfer of Functions, Etc.) Order 2012

Article 8

SCHEDULE 2 Transitional Provisions

1.  A list published by LBRO under section 11(1)(a) or (b) of the Regulatory Enforcement and Sanctions Act 2008 has effect on or after the dissolution date as if prepared and published by the Secretary of State or, as the case may be, by the Welsh Ministers under section 11 of that Act.

2.  Anything done by or in relation to LBRO which has effect immediately before the dissolution date is, so far as necessary for continuing its effect on or after that day, to have effect, as appropriate, as if done by or in relation to—

(a) the Secretary of State; or

(b) the Welsh Ministers.

3.  If before the dissolution date any consultation was undertaken by LBRO which, had it been undertaken by the Secretary of State or the Welsh Ministers on or after that date, would to any extent have satisfied any consultation requirement to which the Secretary of State is or the Welsh Ministers are subject, the requirement may to that extent be taken to have been satisfied.

4.  Anything (including legal proceedings) which, immediately before the dissolution date, is in the process of being done by or in relation to LBRO may be continued by or in relation to the Secretary of State.

5.  So far as is necessary or appropriate in consequence of article 4 or 5, on and after the dissolution date a reference to LBRO in an enactment, instrument or other document is to be treated as a reference to the Secretary of State.