s 13 Transitory provisions.
(1) In the construction and for the purposes of any Act of parliament, judgment, decree, order, award, deed, contract, regulation, byelaw, or other document passed or made before the transfer by virtue of this Act from one authority to another authority of any functions, but so far only as may be necessary for the purpose of the transfer, the name of the latter authority shall be substituted for the name of the former authority. (2) Where anything has been commenced by or under the direction of an authority from whom any functions are transferred by virtue of this Act and that thing is in relation to those functions, that thing may be carried on and completed by or under the direction of the authority to whom those functions are transferred. (3) Where at the time of the transfer of any functions by virtue of this Act any legal proceeding is pending in which any authority from whom functions are transferred by virtue of this Act is a party, and the proceeding has reference to those functions, the authority to whom those functions are transferred shall be substituted in the proceeding for the former authority and the proceeding shall not abate by reason of the substitution.