7.—(1) All property, rights and liabilities to which the Secretary of State for Transport, Local Government and the Regions is entitled or subject at the coming into force of this Order in connection with the functions to which this article applies are hereby transferred to the Secretary of State for Transport.
(2) This article applies to—
(a)the functions transferred by articles 4, 5 and 6, and
(b)those functions which were entrusted to the Secretary of State for Transport, Local Government and the Regions immediately before 28th May 2002 and which have, before the making of this Order, been entrusted to the Secretary of State for Transport.