Supplemental
4.—(1) This Order does not affect the validity of anything done by or in relation to the Secretary of State for the Home Department before the coming into force of this Order in connection with the functions transferred by article 3.
(2) Anything done by or in relation to the Secretary of State for the Home Department in connection with the functions transferred by article 3 has effect, so far as necessary for continuing its effect after the coming into force of this Order, as if done by or in relation to the Lord Chancellor.
(3) Anything (including legal proceedings) which is in the process of being done by or in relation to the Secretary of State for the Home Department at the coming into force of this Order may, if it relates to the functions transferred by article 3, be continued by or in relation to the Lord Chancellor.
(4) So far as is necessary for the purposes of or in consequence of the transfer to the Lord Chancellor of the functions mentioned in article 3, an enactment or instrument passed or made before this Order comes into force has effect as if—
(a)a reference to the Secretary of State or the Secretary of State for the Home Department were a reference to the Lord Chancellor,
(b)a reference to the Home Department (or the Home Office) were a reference to the Department for Constitutional Affairs, and
(c)a reference to an officer of the Home Department (or the Home Office) were a reference to an officer of the Department for Constitutional Affairs.