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c. 12
but those applying to any such loan immediately before that date
shall apply in relation to payments by the successor company in respect of that loan.
Scu. 5
43. Nothing in this Act shall affect the operation of any order
made under section 33 of the 1981 Act before the transfer date or any
duty imposed by subsection (3) of that section to amend any order
so made.
44. Nothing in this Act shall affect the operation of section 56 of
the 1981 Act in relation to any records of British Telecommunications which become records of the successor company on the transfer
date or any records kept by British Telecommunications for the
purposes of paragraph 39 above.
45. Where by virtue of anything done before the transfer date,
any enactment amended by Schedule 4 to this Act has effect (whether
or not as so amended) in relation to British Telecommunications,
then, on and after that date, that enactment shall have effect in
relation to the successor company as if that company were the same
person, in law, as British Telecommunications.
46.-(l) Section 6(2) of the Commonwealth Telegraph Act 1949 1949
shall continue to have effect with the modifications made by section
34(1) of the 1981 Act and, subject to that, shall have effect as if
references which include references to British Telecommunications,
in paragraph (c) and sub-paragraphs (iv), (v) and (vi) of paragraph
(d), included references to the successor company.
(2) The power to make regulations conferred on the Secretary
of State by section 49 of the Post Office Act 1969 shall include
power to make such regulations as appear to him to be requisite
for securing that persons to whom that section applies, and persons
claiming in right of them, are not adversely affected in the matter
of pension rights by reason only that(a) in consequence of the 1981 Act, they ceased to be employed
by the Post Office ; or
(b) in consequence of section 60 of this Act, they cease to be
employed by British Telecommunications.
c. 39.
1969 c. 48.
47.-(1) Nothing in this Act shall affect the validity of anything
done by, or in relation to, British Telecommunications before the
transfer date under or by virtue of the Public Utilities Street Works 1950 c. 39.
Act 1950 ; and anything which, immediately before that date, is in
process of being done under, or by virtue of, that Act by or in relation to it (including, in particular, any legal proceedings to which it
is a party) may be continued by, or in relation to, the successor company.
(2) Any notice or direction given or other thing whatsoever done
under the said Act of 1950 by British Telecommunications shall,
if effective at the transfer date, continue in force and have effect as if
similarly given or done by the successor company.