Section 19: Transitional provisions as to the transfer of property, functions, etc. of the Agency.

(1) On the commencement of this Act;
(a) all property held immediately before that day by or on behalf of the former National Action Committee on AIDS (in this Act referred to as the former Committee") shall by virtue of this subsection and without further assurance vest in the Agency and be held by it for the purposes of the Agency;
(b) the former Committee shall cease to exist and
(c) subject to the next succeeding subsection any act, matter or thing made or done by the former Committee shall continue to have effect
(2) Every agreement to which the former Committee was a party immediately before the appointed day whether or not of such a nature that the rights liabilities and obligations thereunder could be assigned by the former Committee shall, unless its terms or subject matter make it impossibe that it should have effect as modified in the manner provided by the sub-paragraph, have effect from the appointed day so far as it relates to property transferred by this Act to the Agency, as if the Agency had been a party to the agreement.
(3) without prejudice to the generality of the foregoing provisions of this Schedule, where by the operations of this Act, any right, liability or obligation vests in the Agency the Agency and all other persons shall, as from the appointed day, have the same rights, powers and remedies (and in particular, the same rights as to the making or resisting of legal proceedings or the making or resisting of applications to any authority) for ascertaining perfecting or enforcing that right liability or obligation as they would have had if it had at all times been a right liability or obligation of the Agency.
(4) If the law in force at the place where any property transferred by this Act is situated (whether by reference to an instrument of transfer or otherwise), the law shall, so far as it provides for alterations of a Register (but not for avoidance of transfer, the payment of fees or any other matter) apply with the necessary modifications to the transfer of the property aforesaid, and the Agency shall furnish the necessary particulars of the transfer to the proper officer of the registration authority and of that officer to register the transfer accordingly.
(5) Without prejudice to the generality of the provisions of this Act relating to the transfer of property, any persons who, immediately before the appointed day was a member of the staff of the former Committee shall on that day become the holder of an appointment with the Agency With the status, designation and functions which correspond as nearly as may be to those which appertained to him in his capacity as a member of that staff.
(6) All regulations, rules and similar instruments made for the purpose of the former Committee and in force Immediately before the appointed day shall, except in so far as they are subsequently revoked or amended by any authority havinq power in that regard, have effect with any necessary modifications as if duly made for the corresponding purposes of the Agency.