11Effect of contracts, etc

(1) All contracts, deeds, bonds, agreements, powers of attorney, grants of legal representation and other instruments of whatever nature, subsisting or having effect immediately before the appointed day, and to which the Board of Administration or, as the case may be, the Board of Management, or any person on behalf of the Board of Administration or, as the case may be, the Board of Management, is a party, or which are in favour of the Board of Administration or, as the case may be, Board of Management, shall, in so far as they relate to any purpose, or affairs, of the Lady Hardinge Medical College and Hospital, or, as the case may be, the Kalavati Saran Hospital, be of as full force and effect against, or in favour of, the Central Government, and may be enforced or acted upon as full and effectually as if in place of the Board of Administration or, as the case may be, the Board of Management, the Central Government had been a party thereto or as if they had been issued in favour of the Central Government.

(2) If, on the appointed day, any suit, appeal or other proceeding of whatever nature in relation to the Lady Hardinge Medical College and Hospital, or, as the case may be, the Kalavati Saran Hospital, or any affair of the Lady Hardinge Medical College and Hospital or the Kalavati Saran Hospital, is pending by, or against, the Board of Administration or, as the case may be, the Board of Management or the Treasurer or any other person, the same shall not abate, be discontinued or be, in any way, prejudicially affected by reason of the transfer of the Lady Hardinge Medical College and Hospital to the Central Government or by reason of the assumption of management of the Kalavati Saran Hospital by the Central Government, or of anything contained in this Act; but the suit, appeal or other proceeding may be contained, prosecuted and enforced by or against the Central Government.