Transfer to the Secretary of State for the Home Department: supplementary
7.—(1) This Order does not affect the validity of anything done (or having effect as if done) by or in relation to the Lord Chancellor before the coming into force of this Order.
(2) Anything (including legal proceedings) which, at the coming into force of this Order, is in the process of being done by or in relation to the Lord Chancellor may, so far as it relates to the function transferred by article 6, be continued by or in relation to the Secretary of State for the Home Department.
(3) Anything done (or having effect as if done) by or in relation to the Lord Chancellor in connection with the function transferred by article 6 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 Secretary of State for the Home Department.
(4) Any enactment or instrument passed or made before the coming into force of this Order has effect so far as is necessary for the purposes of or in consequence of article 6, as if references to (and references which are to be read as references to) the Lord Chancellor, his department or an officer of his were references to the Secretary of State for the Home Department, his department or an officer of his (as appropriate).