Restrictive Practices (Amendment) Act, 1987

Transfer of functions of Examiner to Director.

6.—(1) The functions vested in the Examiner by the Principal Act and by section 10 of the Act of 1978 are hereby transferred to the Director.

(2) References to the Examiner in the Principal Act or in any order made thereunder and in section 10 of the Act of 1978 and in this Act, except where the context otherwise requires, shall be construed as references to the Director.

(3) Where, immediately before the commencement of this Act, any legal proceedings are pending to which the Examiner is a party and the proceedings have references to functions transferred by this section to the Director, the name of the Director, shall, in so far as the proceedings relate to any functions transferred by this section, be substituted in the proceedings for that of the Examiner or added in the proceedings, as may be appropriate, and the proceedings shall not abate by reason of such substitution.

(4) Anything commenced before the commencement of this Act by or under the authority of the Examiner may, so far as it relates tofunctions transferred by this section to the Director, be carried out and completed on or after such commencement by the Director.

(5) Every document granted or made in the exercise of a function transferred by this section shall, if and in so far as it was operative immediately before the commencement of this Act, have effect on and after such commencement as if it had been made by the Director.