Section 9.
1Subject to the provisions of this Schedule—
(a)any rights or obligations of the Employment Service Agency or the Training Services Agency (" the Agencies ") and any property held by either of the Agencies shall become rights, obligations and property of the Manpower Services Commission ; and
(b)anything which apart from section 9 of this Act would be required or permitted to be done by or to either of the Agencies shall or may be done by or to the Manpower Services Commission.
2Any legal proceedings to which either of the Agencies is a party may be continued after the time when section 9 of this Act comes into force by or in relation to the Manpower Services Commission.
3Every contract, agreement, licence and authority, whether written or not, and every deed, bond, instrument and document made before that time and still in effect at that time which relates to property, rights or obligations of either of the Agencies which are vested in the Manpower Services Commission by paragraph 1 above shall continue in effect but subject to the following modifications, so far as they are applicable—
(a)if either of the Agencies is a party thereto, the Manpower Services Commission shall be substituted as that party ;
(b)for a reference (however worded and whether express or implied) to either of the Agencies there shall, as respects anything falling to be done or occurring after that time, be substituted a reference to the Manpower Services Commission ;
(c)for a reference (however worded and whether express or implied) to the members or any member, or to any officer or officers of either of the Agencies there shall be substituted, as respects anything done or falling to be done or occurring after that time, a reference to such officer or officers as the Manpower Services Commission shall appoint for the purpose ; and
(d)for a reference to the office or place of business of either of the Agencies there shall be substituted a reference to the office or place of business of the Manpower Services Commission.
4In section 6(3) of the [1964 c. 16.] Industrial Training Act 1964 for the words from " the Employment Service Agency " to the end there shall be substituted the words " or an officer of the Commission ".
5In Schedule 2 to the [1967 c. 13.] Parliamentary Commissioner Act 1967 the words " Employment Service Agency" and " Training Services Agency " shall be omitted.
6In section 1(4) of the [1972 c. 5.] Local Employment Act 1972 for the words " the Employment Service Agency " and " the Agency " there shall be substituted respectively the words " the Manpower Services Commission " and " the Commission ".
7In section 1(5) of the [1972 c. 63.] Industry Act 1972 for the words "the Employment Service Agency" and " the Agency" there shall be substituted respectively the words " the Manpower Services Commission " and " the Commission ".
8(1)In subsection (1) of section 1 of the [1973 c. 50.] Employment and Training Act 1973 for the words " three bodies " there shall be substituted the words " a body " and the words from " the Employment" to " each of " shall be omitted.
(2)Subsection (4) of that section shall be omitted.
(3)In subsection (5) of that section the words " and the Agencies " shall be omitted.
(4)In subsection (7) of that section the words "and of the Agencies " shall be omitted and for the word " their " there shall be substituted the word " its ".
(5)In subsection (8) of that section for the words from "and the Agencies " to " government departments " and the words " public departments " there shall be substituted respectively the words " as if it were a government department " and " a public department".
9In section 2 of that Act, there shall be omitted—
(a)in subsection (3), the words following paragraph (c);
(b)subsection (4);
(c)in subsection (5), the words " and each of the Agencies " and " or as the case may be, the Agency ".
10In section 4 of that Act—
(a)in subsection (3)—
(i)in paragraphs (a) and (b) the words " or either of the Agencies " shall be omitted,
(ii)in paragraph (c) the words " either of the Agencies or " shall be omitted,
(iii)paragraph (d) shall be omitted, and
(iv)in paragraph (e) for the words " the Commission or either of the Agencies" there shall be substituted the words " or the Commission ";
(b)in subsection (4) the words " either of the Agencies " shall be omitted;
(c)in subsection (5)(a) the words from " or " onwards shall be omitted; and
(d)in subsection (6) the words " and an officer of either of the Agencies " shall be omitted.
11In section 5(3) of that Act the words "or either of the Agencies " shall be omitted.
12In section 11(1) of that Act the words from " and it" onwards shall be omitted.
13In section 13(1) of that Act the definition of " the Agencies " shall be omitted.
14Paragraph 21 of Schedule 1 to that Act shall be omitted.
15In paragraphs (a) and (b) of section 20(5) of the [1975 c. 14.] Social Security Act 1975 for the words " the Employment Service Agency " there shall be substituted the words " the Manpower Services Commission ".
16In Part II of Schedule 1 to the [1975 c. 24.] House of Commons Disqualification Act 1975 the words " The Employment Service Agency " and " The Training Services Agency " shall be omitted.
17In section 14(2)(b) of the [1975 c. 65.] Sex Discrimination Act 1975 the words from " the Employment" onwards shall be omitted.
18For subsection (1) of section 16 of that Act there shall be substituted—
“(1)It is unlawful for the Manpower Services Commission to discriminate in the provision of facilities or services under section 2 of the Employment and Training Act 1973.”
19In section 13(2)(b) of the [1976 c. 74.] Race Relations Act 1976 the words from " the Employment" onwards shall be omitted.
20For subsection (1) of section 15 of that Act there shall be substituted—
“(1)It is unlawful for the Manpower Services Commission to discriminate in the provision of facilities or services under section 2 of the Employment and Training Act 1973”.
21In section 22(6)(b) of the social [1977 c. 5.] Security (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 1977 the words from " the Employment " onwards shall be omitted.