27.—(1) The following shall be and hereby are transferred to the NSAI on the establishment day—

(a) all property and rights relating to such property held or enjoyed immediately before that day by Forbairt relating to the Legal Metrology Service or any trustee or agent thereof acting on its behalf, and

(b) all liabilities incurred before that day by Forbairt relating to the Legal Metrology Service or any trustee or agent thereof acting on its behalf that had not been discharged before that day,

and, accordingly, without any further conveyance, transfer or assignment—

(i) the said property, real and personal, shall, on that day, vest in the NSAI for all the estate, term or interest for which, immediately before that day, it was so vested in Forbairt but subject to all trusts and equities affecting the property subsisting and capable of being performed,

(ii) the said rights shall, as on and from that day, be enjoyed by the NSAI, and

(iii) the said liabilities shall, as on and from that day, be liabilities of the NSAI.

(2) All moneys, stocks, shares and securities transferred to the NSAI by this section that, on the establishment day, are standing in the name of Forbairt relating to the Legal Metrology Service or any said trustee or agent thereof shall, upon the request of the NSAI, be transferred into its name.

(3) Every right and liability transferred to the NSAI by this section may, on or after the establishment day, be sued on, recovered or enforced by or against the NSAI in its own name and it shall not be necessary for the NSAI to give notice to the person whose right or liability is transferred by this section of the transfer.