Section 84.
1SEvery agreement to which the transferor was a party immediately before the date of transfer shall have effect as from that date in favour of or against the transferee as if the transferee had been a party to the agreement instead of the transferor.
2SWhere the functions of the transferor are transferred to more than one transferee the property, rights, liabilities and obligations of the transferor shall be allocated in such a manner as relates to the allocation of the functions transferred to each of the transferees.
3SAny legal or other proceedings to which the transferor is a party which are pending on the date of the transfer may be continued on or after that date as if the transferee instead of the transferor had been that party.
4SThe Secretary of State may make regulations for facilitating the transfer of any property, rights, liabilityes or obligations in pursuance of this Act.
5SIn this Schedule—
(a)“transferor” means a body or person from whom a function has been transferred under this Act and from whom any property, right, liability or obligation has been so transferred, and
(b)“transferee” means a local authority to whom a function or any property, right, liability or obligation has been so transferred,
and “transfer of function” includes the giving of a function to a local authority which was previously performed by another body including another local authority.