5.—(1) Any byelaws made under section 9 before the date of the coming into force of this Order, shall continue in force after that date as if, in relation to an Area or part of an Area, they had been made by the relevant transferee.
(2) Subsections (3)(a) and (4)(b) of section 9 shall not apply in relation to byelaws to be made by a council of a London borough.
(3) For the purposes of section 10(1), section 238 of the Local Government Act 1972(1) shall have effect as if the expression “proper officer”—
(a)in relation to the British Waterways Board, referred to an employee of the Board appointed for the purposes of section 238; or
(b)in relation to RODMA, referred to the company secretary of RODMA; or
(c)in relation to the council of the London borough of Southwark or the council of the London borough of Tower Hamlets, had the same meaning as in section 270(3) of the Local Government Act 1972.