Public Health (Tobacco) (Amendment) Act 2010

Transitional provisions consequent upon transfer of functions of Office.

4.— (1) References (however expressed) to the Office in any enactment shall, unless the context otherwise requires, be construed as references to the Executive.

(2) Anything commenced by or under the authority of the Office and not completed before the commencement of this Act may, in so far as it relates to a function transferred to the Executive under section 3 , be carried on or completed on or after the commencement of this Act by the Executive.

(3) Without prejudice to the generality of subsection (1), the register established and maintained by the Office under section 37 (amended by section 5 of the Public Health (Tobacco) (Amendment) Act 2009 ) of the Act of 2002 is continued in being and shall be maintained, on or after the commencement of this Act, by the Executive.