Office holders and entities under former provisions
543 Office holders and entities under former provisions
On the commencement—
the former commission is abolished; and
a person holding office as the former commissioner or former assistant commissioner goes out of office; and
the Child Death Case Review Committee under former chapter 6 is abolished and its members go out of office; and
each advisory committee under former chapter 7 is abolished.
A legal proceeding that, immediately before the commencement, was being taken or may have been taken by or against a former entity may be continued or taken by or against the State.
If, immediately before the commencement, a former entity was a party to a current contract, then the State is taken to be a party to the contract in place of the former entity.
A regulation may prescribe an entity to be the party acting for the State for a legal proceeding or contract to which subsection (2) or (3) applies.
In this section—former entity means the former commission, former commissioner or former assistant commissioner.
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