Effect of Transfers, Repeals, and Amendments

Effect of Transfers, Repeals, and Amendments existing rules, regulations, orders, and so forth Sec. 1501. (a) All orders, determinations, rules, regulations, permits, contracts, certificates, licenses, rates, and privileges which have been issued, made, or granted, or allowed to become effective, by the President, the Department of Commerce, the Secretary of Commerce, the Administrator of Civil Aeronautics, the Civil Aeronautics Board, the Airways Modernization Board, the Secretary of the Treasury, the Secretary of Agriculture, or the Postmaster General, or any court of competent jurisdiction, under any provision of law repealed or amended by this Act, or in the exercise of duties, powers, or functions which, under this Act, are vested in the Administrator of the Federal Aviation Agency or the Civil Aeronautics Board, and which are in effect at the time this section takes effect, shall continue in effect according to their terms until modified, terminated, superseded, set aside, or repealed by the Administrator or the Board, as the case may be, or by any court of competent jurisdiction, or by operation of law. pending administrative proceedings (b) The provisions of this Act shall not affect any proceedings pending at the time this section takes effect before the Secretary of Commerce, the Administrator of Civil Aeronautics, the Civil Aeronautics Board, the Chairman of the Airways Modernization Board, the Secretary of the Treasury, or the Secretary of Agriculture; but any such proceedings shall be continued before the successor agency, orders therein issued, appeals therefrom taken, and payments made pursuant to such orders, as if this Act had not been enacted; and orders issued in any such proceedings shall continue in effect until modified, terminated, superseded, or repealed by the Administrator, the Civil Aeronautics Board, the Secretary of the Treasury, or the Secretary of Agriculture or by operation of law. 72 Stat. 810 pending judicial proceedings (c) The provisions of this Act shall not affect suits commenced prior to the date on which this section takes effect; and all such suits shall be continued by the successor agency, proceedings therein had, appeals therein taken, and judgments therein rendered, in the same manner and with the same effect as if this Act had not been passed. No suit, action, or other proceeding lawfully commenced by or against any agency or officer of the United States, in relation to the discharge of official duties, shall abate by reason of any transfer of authority, power, or duties from such agency or officer to the Administrator or the Board under the provisions of this Act, but the court, upon motion or supplemental petition filed at any time within twelve months after such transfer, showing the necessity for a survival of such suit, action, or other proceeding to obtain a settlement of the questions involved, may allow the same to be maintained by or against the Administrator or the Board.