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Transfer of property to the Police Authority. 2.(1) There shall, on the appointed day, be transferred to and vest in the Police Authority by virtue of this Act: (a)all the estates held immediately before that day by the Ministry of Home Affairs (in this Act referred to as "the Ministry") or the Ministry of Finance in land used wholly or mainly for the purposes of the Royal Ulster Constabulary; (b)all equipment, furniture or other moveable property then owned by the Ministry or the Ministry of Finance and used on or in connection with such land for those purposes; and (c)all rights and liabilities to which the Ministry or the Ministry of Finance was entitled or subject immediately before that day, being rights and liabilities acquired or incurred solely in connection with any such land, equipment, furniture or other moveable property. (2) There shall also, on the appointed day, be transferred to and vest in the Police Authority by virtue of this Act all vehicles, apparatus, furniture, fittings, clothing and other equipment owned by the Ministry and held immediately before that day wholly or mainly for use for the purposes of the Royal Ulster Constabulary and all rights and liabilities to which the Ministry was entitled or subject immediately before that day in connection with the supply of vehicles, apparatus, furniture, fittings, clothing or other equipment wholly or mainly for use for those purposes. (3) Nothing in subsection (1) or (2) shall operate to transfer to or vest in the Police Authority any estate in land or any furniture, equipment, or other moveable property held by the Ministry or the Ministry of Finance for the use of the Ulster Special Constabulary but notwithstanding anything in section 5 of the Stormont Regulation and Government Property Act (Northern Ireland) 1933 either Ministry may dispose of any such estate in land or any such moveable property held by it to such persons and on such terms as may be jointly agreed by both Ministries. (4) The Ministry with the approval of the Ministry of Finance may by regulations make such provision supplementary to or consequential on the provisions of subsections (1) and (2) as appears to the Ministry to be necessary or expedient, and in particular, but without prejudice to the generality of the foregoing may provide by such regulations (a)for the determination by arbitration, in default of agreement, of any question arising as to whether any property, right or liability will be or has been transferred under those subsections; (b)where any property, right or liability transferred under this section or the title to any such property or right is entered on any register kept in pursuance of any enactment, for the amendment of the entry by the person keeping the register; (c)for enabling pending proceedings relating to any property, rights or liabilities transferred under this section to be continued; and (d)for substituting, as from the appointed day, for any reference in any enactment, judgment, decree, order, award, deed, contract, regulation, rule, byelaw, certificate or other document affecting any property, right or liability transferred under this section and passed or made before the appointed day, to the Ministry or to the Ministry of Finance, or for any reference which is to be construed as a reference to the Ministry or as a reference to the Ministry of Finance, a reference to the Police Authority.
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