49.—(1) Notwithstanding anything contained in section 7 of this Act the following provisions shall apply:

(a) an order under section 21 or section 22 of the Act of 1959 in force immediately before the establishment day shall continue in force and may be amended or revoked by An Chomhairle by order under this section, subject, in the case of an order under the said section 22, to the modification that for any reference therein to functions to be performed by the committee established by the order there shall be substituted a reference to the function of advising and assisting An Chomhairle as respects the performance by An Chomhairle of its functions in relation to the activity of industry corresponding to the trade standing specified for the time being in the order, and any reference to An Cheard Chomhairle in any order under either of the said sections shall be construed as a reference to An Chomhairle.

(b) every rule and every notice made or given under the Act of 1959 in force immediately before the establishment day shall continue in force and every such rule shall be administered by An Chomhairle in respect of the area for and in respect of which it was actually made under the Act of 1959, and every such rule may be amended or revoked by An Chomhairle by order under this section, and proceedings and penalties arising in relation to any such rule or notice before, on or after the establishment day, may be prosecuted, recovered and enforced by An Chomhairle,

(c) every document purporting to be an instrument made by An Cheard Chomhairle and to be sealed with the seal (purporting to be authenticated in accordance with section 16 of the Act of 1959) of An Cheard Chomhairle shall continue to be received in evidence and to be deemed to be such instrument without proof unless the contrary is shown,

(d) in case a committee established by an order under the said section 22 has not before the establishment day made rules in accordance with the requirement of subsection (1) of section 29 of the Act of 1959, An Chomhairle may, on the advice of the committee, make such rules and any rules made under this paragraph shall, for the purposes of section 45 of this Act, have effect as if they were made under paragraph (e) of subsection (1) of section 27 of this Act, and

(e) a certificate issued under section 56 of the Act of 1959 in force immediately before the establishment day shall, if and in so far as it relates to any such rule, continue in force and may be amended or revoked by An Chomhairle by certificate under this section.

(2) An Chomhairle may by order amend or revoke an order under this section and may by certificate amend or revoke a certificate under this section.

(3) All property, whether real or personal (including choses-in-action), which immediately before the establishment day was vested in or belonged to or was held in trust or subject to conditions for An Cheard Chomhairle and all rights, powers and privileges relating to or connected with any such property shall on the establishment day, without any conveyance or assignment but subject where necessary to transfer in the books of any bank, corporation or company, become and be vested in or the property of or held in trust or subject to conditions for (as the case may require) An Chomhairle for all the estate, term or interest for which the same immediately before the establishment day was vested in or belonged to or was held in trust or subject to conditions for An Cheard Chomhairle, but subject to all trusts, conditions and equities affecting the same and then subsisting and capable of being performed.

(4) All property transferred by this section which immediately before the establishment day was standing in the books of any bank or was registered in the books of any bank, corporation or company in the name of An Cheard Chomhairle shall, upon the request of An Chomhairle made at any time on or after the establishment day, be transferred in such books by such bank, corporation or company into the name of An Chomhairle.

(5) Every chose-in-action transferred by this section from An Cheard Chomhairle to An Chomhairle may, on or after the establishment day, be sued upon, recovered, or enforced by An Chomhairle in its own name and it shall not be necessary for An Chomhairle to give notice to the person bound by such chose-in-action of the transfer effected by this section.

(6) Every debt and other liability (including unliquidated liabilities arising from torts or breaches of contract) which, immediately before the establishment day is owing and unpaid or has been incurred and is undischarged by An Cheard Chomhairle shall, on the establishment day, become and be the debt or liability of An Chomhairle and shall be paid or discharged by and may be recovered from and enforced against An Chomhairle accordingly.

(7) Every arrangement made under section 39 of the Act of 1959 and every contract which was entered into and is in force immediately before the establishment day between An Cheard Chomhairle and any person shall continue in force on and after the establishment day, but every such contract shall be construed and have effect as if An Chomhairle were substituted therein for An Cheard Chomhairle, and every such arrangement and every such contract shall be enforceable by or against An Chomhairle accordingly.

(8) Where, immediately before the establishment day, any legal proceedings are pending to which An Cheard Chomhairle is a party, the name of An Chomhairle shall be substituted for that of An Cheard Chomhairle, and the proceedings shall not abate by reason of such substitution.

(9) Every register kept under section 44 of the Act of 1959 by an apprenticeship committee within the meaning of that Act shall be included in and shall be deemed to be part of the register required to be kept by An Chomhairle under section 33 of this Act.

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