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Consequential amendments

5.—(1) The enactments and instruments specified in the Schedule to this Order shall have effect with the amendments there specified.

(2) Subject to paragraph (1) above, any enactment or instrument passed or made before the coming into force of this Order shall have effect so far as necessary for the purpose of or in consequence of article 3 as if—

(a)for any reference to the Secretary of State, the Minister for the Civil Service and the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster (including any reference which is to be construed as such a reference), there were substituted a reference to the Secretary of State alone; and

(b)for any reference to the Minister for the Civil Service or the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster or both (including, in either case, any reference which is to be construed as such a reference) there were substituted a reference to the Secretary of State or, as the case may be, to the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry.