Ministers Of The Crown Citation and commencement 1 1 This Order may be cited as the Transfer of Functions (Sea Fisheries) Order 2012. 2 This Order comes into force on 5th December 2012. Interpretation 2 In this Order any reference to the Secretary of State concerned with sea fishing in Northern Ireland includes the Secretary of State concerned with the sea fishing industry in Northern Ireland (and any similar reference). Transfer of functions 3 1 The functions which are exercisable by the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs and the Secretary of State concerned with sea fishing in Northern Ireland jointly under or by virtue of the following enactments are transferred to the Secretary of State— a the Sea Fish (Conservation) Act 1967 except sections 4(6C) and (6D) , 4AA , 6 and 8 ; b section 5 of the Sea Fisheries Act 1968 ; c section 2 of the Fishery Limits Act 1976 ; d section 30(2) of the Fisheries Act 1981 ; e section 1 of the British Fishing Boats Act 1983 . 2 The functions which are exercisable by the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs and the Secretary of State concerned with sea fishing in Northern Ireland jointly under or by virtue of section 6 or 8 of the Sea Fish (Conservation) Act 1967 are transferred to the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs. Transfer of rights and liabilities 4 There are transferred to the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs all rights and liabilities to which the Secretary of State concerned with sea fishing in Northern Ireland is entitled or subject at the coming into force of this Order in connection with a function transferred by article 3. Supplementary 5 1 This Order does not affect the validity of anything done (or having effect as if done) by or in relation to the transferor before the coming into force of this Order. 2 Anything (including legal proceedings) which, at the coming into force of this Order, is in the process of being done by or in relation to the transferor may, so far as it relates to a transferred matter, be continued by or in relation to the transferee. 3 Anything done (or having effect as if done) by or in relation to the transferor in connection with a transferred matter has effect, so far as is necessary for continuing its effect after the coming into force of this Order, as if done by or in relation to the transferee. 4 Any enactment or instrument passed or made before the coming into force of this Order has effect so far as is necessary for the purposes of or in consequence of a transferred matter as if references to the transferor (and references which are to be read as references to the transferor) were or included references to the transferee. 5 In paragraphs (1) to (4) any reference to the transferor or transferee includes the department or an officer of the transferor or transferee. 6 In this article— “instrument” includes Royal Charters, Royal Warrants, Orders in Council, Letters Patent, judgments, decrees, orders, rules, regulations, schemes, bye-laws, awards, licences, authorisations, consents, approvals, contracts and other agreements, memoranda and articles of association, certificates, deeds and other documents; “the transferee” means the Secretary of State or the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (as the case may be); “the transferor” means, in relation to a transferred matter, the Secretary of State or Secretaries of State from whom it is transferred; “transferred matter” means anything transferred by this Order. Richard Tilbrook Clerk of the Privy Council