The Public Bodies (Abolition of Public Works Loan Commissioners) Order 2020

Supplementary

9.—(1) Nothing in this Order affects the validity of anything done (or having effect as if done) by or in relation to the Commissioners before the transfer date.

(2) Anything (including legal proceedings) which immediately before the transfer date is in the process of being done by or in relation to the Commissioners may be continued on or after the transfer date by or in relation to the Treasury.

(3) Anything done (or having effect as if done) by or in relation to the Commissioners has effect, so far as is necessary for continuing its effect on or after the transfer date, as if done by or in relation to the Treasury.

(4) Subject to the express provision made in Schedules 1 and 2 and so far as necessary or appropriate for the purposes of or in consequence of articles 4 or 5—

(a) a reference to the Commissioners in an enactment, instrument or other document—

(i) where such reference is in respect of land, is to be treated as a reference to the Public Works Loans Secretary, and

(ii) in all other cases is to be treated as a reference to the Treasury;

(b) a reference to the secretary to the Commissioners in an enactment, instrument or other document is to be treated as a reference to the Public Works Loans Secretary; and

(c) a reference to the Public Works Loan Board is to be treated as a reference to the Treasury.