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The Central Fund and the Exchequer.
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6.—(1) The fund mentioned in Article 11 of the Constitution as the one fund to be formed by the revenues of the State shall be called and known as the Central Fund and is in this section and the next following section of this Act referred to for purposes of distinction as the Central Fund of Ireland.
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(2) Every mention or reference in any statute or statutory instrument in force immediately prior to the date of the coming into operation of the Constitution and continued in force thereafter by section 1 of Article 50 of the Constitution (whether such mention or reference is expressed in such statute or statutory instrument by virtue of original enactment or by subsequent amendment or modification or is implied therein by virtue of a general or a specific adaptation or interpretation) of or to the Central Fund of Saorstát Eireann or of or to the Exchequer of Saorstát Eireann shall—
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(a) in relation to anything done or to be done or an event occurring before the coming into operation of the Constitution, be construed and have effect (unless the context otherwise requires) in like manner as it was construed and had effect immediately prior to the date of the coming into operation of the Constitution, and
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(b) in relation to anything done or to be done or an event occurring after the coming into operation of the Constitution, be construed and have effect, unless the context otherwise requires, as a mention of or reference to (as the case may require) the Central Fund of Ireland or the Exchequer of Ireland.
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