In the construction and for the purposes of any statutory provision, judgment, decree, order, award, deed, contract, regulation, byelaw, certificate or other document passed or made before the appointed day, any reference to, or which is to be construed as a reference to, the Department of Commerce shall be construed as a reference to the Department of Economic Development.

The transfer of functions by this Order shall not affect any order, regulation, rule, appointment, direction, instruction, approval, requirement or authorisation made or given or other thing done by the Department of Commerce before the appointed day, but any such matter shall, if in force immediately before that day, continue in force to the like extent and subject to the like provisions as if it had been duly made, given or done by the Department of Economic Development.

Anything commenced before the appointed day by or under the authority of the Department of Commerce may be carried on or completed by or under the authority of the Department of Economic Development.

Where, at the appointed day, any legal proceeding is pending to which the Department of Commerce is a party, the Department of Economic Development shall be substituted in the proceeding for the Department of Commerce, and the proceeding shall not abate by reason of the substitution.