1.—(1) These Regulations may be cited as the Consumer Scotland (Transfer of Functions) Regulations 2022 and come into force on 10 November 2022.
(2) In these Regulations, “Citizens Advice Scotland” means the Scottish Association of Citizens Advice Bureaux(1).
(3) Any modification made by these Regulations has the same extent as the provision modified.
2. The modifications specified in the schedule have effect.
3.—(1) Nothing in these Regulations affects the validity of anything done (or having effect as if done) by or in relation to Citizens Advice Scotland before their coming into force.
(2) Anything done (or having effect as if done) at the coming into force of these Regulations by or in relation to Citizens Advice Scotland, so far as it relates to any function of Citizens Advice Scotland transferred to Consumer Scotland by these Regulations, has effect, so far as is necessary for continuing its effect after the coming into force of these Regulations, as if done by or in relation to Consumer Scotland.
(3) Anything (including legal proceedings) which at the coming into force of these Regulations is in the process of being done by or in relation to Citizens Advice Scotland, so far as it relates to any function transferred by these Regulations, may be continued by or in relation to Consumer Scotland.
(4) So far as may be necessary for the purposes of or in consequence of a transfer of a function by these Regulations, a reference to Citizens Advice Scotland in a Scottish instrument or other document is to be treated as a reference to Consumer Scotland.
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