7General effect of vesting of Council and Society in Board

(1) All contracts, agreements and working arrangements subsisting immediately before the appointed day and affecting the Council, or, as the case may be, the Society shall, in so far as they relate to the Council, or, as the case may be, the Society, cease to have effect or be enforceable against the Council, or, as the case may be, the Society and shall be of as full force and effect against or in favour of the Board in which the Council and the Society have vested by virtue of this Act and enforceable as fully and effectively as if, instead of the Council, or, as the case may be, the Society, the Board had been named therein or had been a party thereto.

(2) Any proceeding, suit or cause of action pending or existing immediately before the appointed day by or against the Council or the Society may, as from that day, be continued and enforced by or against the Board in which it has vested by virtue of this Act, as it might have been enforced by or against the Council or the Society if this Act had not been passed, and shall cease to be enforceable by or against the Council or, as the case may be, the Society.