General continuance of matters

7.  Subject to the other provisions of these regulations, any of the following things done or treated by virtue of any enactment as having been done by, or to, or in relation to, any authority from whom any area is transferred by the order in connection with the discharge of any of their functions in relation to such area, that is to say—

• any written agreement or other instrument in writing or any determination or declaration made or treated as made by such an authority;

• any notice or direction given or treated as given by, or to, such an authority;

• any licence, permission, consent, approval, exemption, dispensation or relaxation granted or treated as granted by, or to, such an authority;

• any application, proposal or objection made or treated as made by, or to, such an authority;

• any condition or requirement imposed or treated as imposed by, or on, such an authority; or

• any appeal allowed by, or in favour of, or against, such an authority,

shall, as from the appointed day, be treated as having been done by, to, or in relation to, the authority by whom the functions become exercisable in the area on and after that day by virtue of the order, and any such thing shall as from that day have effect as if any reference therein to the first-mentioned authority were a reference to the authority secondly mentioned.