Section 75(6)

A power of the Secretary of State under this Part to provide by order for the transfer of any property, rights or liabilities, or to make transitional provision in connection with any such transfer or with any order by which functions become or cease to be exercisable by any authority, shall include power to provide, in particular— for the management and custody of any transferred property (whether real or personal); for any liabilities transferred to include liabilities under any enactment; for legal proceedings commenced by or against any person to be continued by or against a person to whom property, rights or liabilities are transferred or, as the case may be, any authority by whom any functions are to become exercisable; for the transfer of staff, compensation for loss of office, pensions and other staffing matters; and for treating any person to whom a transfer of property, rights or liabilities is made or, as the case may be, by whom any functions are to become exercisable as, for some or all purposes, the same person in law as the person from whom the transfer is made or the authority by whom the functions have previously been exercisable.

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Source: legislation.gov.uk · retrieved 2026-07-30