PART VI.

Transitory Provisions.

58. —(1) All property, whether real or personal (including choses-in-action) which immediately before the appointed day was vested in or belonged to or was held in trust for the former Board or the members thereof as such and all rights, powers, and privileges relating to or connected with any such property shall, on the appointed day and without any conveyance or assignment, become and be vested in or the property of or held in trust for the Board for all the estate, term, or interest for which the same immediately before the appointed day was vested in or belonged to or was held in trust for the former Board or the members thereof as such.

(2) Every debt and other liability (including unliquidated liabilities arising from torts or breaches of contract) which immediately before the appointed day was owing and unpaid or has been incurred and was undischarged by the former Board or the members thereof as such shall, on the appointed day, become and be the debt or liability of the Board and shall be paid or discharged by and may be recovered from or enforced against the Board.

(3) Every chose-in-action transferred by this section may be sued upon, recovered, or enforced by the Board in their own name, and it shall not be necessary for the Board to give notice to the person bound by such chose-in-action of the transfer effected by this section.

59. —Any proceedings instituted by or against the former Board or the members thereof as such which were pending immediately before the appointed day may be continued by or against and in the name of the Board and, in particular, any proceedings for the removal of the name of any woman from the former roll which were pending immediately before the appointed day shall become and shall be continued as proceedings under this Act for the removal of the name of such woman from the roll of midwives.

60. —Every person who immediately before the appointed day was a paid officer of the former Board shall on the appointed day be transferred to and become an officer of the Board.

61. —(1) The registrations in the former roll immediately before the appointed day shall, on the appointed day, become the first registrations in the roll of midwives.

(2) The certificate and badge issued by the former Board to a woman who, immediately before the appointed day, stood registered in the former roll shall, on and from the appointed day, be deemed for all purposes to be a midwife's certificate and a midwife's badge.

62. —Where the Board become of opinion that the right to attend women in childbirth should be restored to any woman whose name stood, immediately before the appointed day, removed from the former roll, the Board may register her in the roll of midwives and so much of this Act and the rules made under this Act as relate to the restoration of a name to the roll of midwives shall have effect in relation to such registration.

63. —Until rules are made in regard to any particular matter by the Board under this Act, the rules made by the former Board shall, as regards that matter and subject to any necessary modifications, have effect as if duly made by the Board under this Act.

64. —As soon as may be after the appointed day, the Board shall send to the Minister a report of the proceedings of the former Board during the year 1944 and the report shall contain such particulars as the Minister directs.

65. —(1) As soon as may be after the appointed day, the Board shall publish a statement of the receipts and expenditure, including liabilities, during the year 1944 of the former Board and such statement shall be certified as correct by a local government auditor to be appointed for that purpose by the Minister.

(2) If the statement published by the Board under this section shows a balance against the former Board, section 22 of this Act (which relates to payments by local supervising authorities to the Board) shall apply in relation to such balance in like manner as if it were such a balance as is mentioned in that section.

(3) The Board shall send a copy of the statement published under this section to the Minister.

(4) The Minister shall determine the fee to be paid by the Board in relation to the certification in pursuance of this section by a local government auditor of the statement published under this section and the fee so determined shall be paid by the Board to the Minister and shall thereupon be paid into or disposed of by him for the benefit of the Exchequer in such manner as the Minister for Finance directs.