All orders and regulations made, all directions, consents and notices given, and all building lines and improvement lines prescribed, with respect to a highway which becomes a trunk road, either by the former highway authority for the purposes of their functions with respect to that highway or by a council under any enactment to which section 265 of this Act applies, if they were in force immediately before the highway became a trunk road, have effect with respect thereto as if made, given or prescribed by the MinisterF1or a strategic highways company, whichever is highway authority for the trunk road; but nothing in this paragraph is to be taken as transferring to the MinisterF2or the company any liability not transferred toF3it by or under the said section 265.