3.—(1) Until 1st April 2000, section 13 of the Act (Auditor General for Scotland) shall have effect subject to the following provisions of this article.
(2) The functions of Audit Scotland under subsections (2) to (4) and (11) of that section shall be exercisable instead by the Parliamentary corporation and, so far as may be necessary for that purpose, the references in those subsections to Audit Scotland shall be read as if they were references to the Parliamentary corporation.
(3) Anything (including legal proceedings) which, at 1st April 2000, is in the process of being done by or in relation to the Parliamentary corporation may, so far as it relates to any function of Audit Scotland under those subsections, be continued by or in relation to Audit Scotland.
(4) Anything done by or in relation to the Parliamentary corporation for the purposes of or in connection with the exercise of functions of Audit Scotland under those subsections as modified above shall, if in force at that date, have effect on that date as if done by or in relation to Audit Scotland so far as that is required for continuing its effect after that time.