7. —(1) The administration and business in connection with the exercise, performance or execution of any of the functions transferred by subsection (2) are transferred on the appointed day to the Commission.

(2) The functions vested in the Minister by or under each of the provisions mentioned in column (3) of the Schedule to this Act of the enactments mentioned in column (2) opposite the mention of that provision are transferred to the Commission on the appointed day.

(3) Anything commenced before the appointed day by or under the authority of the Minister may, in so far as it relates to functions transferred by this Act, be carried on or completed on or after that day by or under the authority of the Commission.

(4) Where, immediately before the appointed day, any legal proceedings are pending to which the Minister is the plaintiff or the prosecutor and the proceedings have reference to functions transferred by this Act to the Commission, the name of the Commission shall, in so far as the proceedings relate to any functions transferred by this Act, be substituted in those proceedings for that of the Minister, or added in those proceedings as may be appropriate, and those proceedings shall not abate by reason of such substitution.

(5) Where, immediately before the appointed day, any legal proceedings are pending to which the Minister is a defendant and the proceedings have reference to any functions transferred to the Commission by this Act, the Commission shall not be substituted for the Minister in those proceedings notwithstanding the transfer of functions under this Act.

(6) Every document (including any licence or consent) made, granted or given in the exercise of a function transferred by this Act shall, if and in so far as it was operative immediately before the appointed day, have effect on and after that day as if it had been made, granted or given by the Commission.

(7) References to the Minister in an Act or an instrument (including a licence granted or consent given thereunder) relating to any functions transferred by this Act to the Commission shall be construed, on and after the appointed day, as references to the Commission.