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59 STAT.] 79TH CONG. , IST SESS.-CH. 582-DEC. 20 , 1945 SAVING PROVISIONS SEC. 9. (a) (1) Any statute enacted, and any regulation or other action made, prescribed, issued, granted, or performed, in respect of or by any agency or function transferred to, or consolidated or coordinated with, any other agency or function under the provisions of this Act, before the effective date of such transfer, consolidation, or coordination, shall, except to the extent rescinded, modified, super- seded, or made inapplicable by or under authority of law, have the same effect as if such transfer, consolidation, or coordination had not been made; but where any such statute, regulation, or other action has vested functions in the agency from which the transfer is made under the plan, such functions shall, insofar as they are to be exercised after the transfer, be considered as vested in the agency to which the transfer is made under the plan. (2) As used in paragraph (1) of this subsection the term "regu- lation or other action" means any regulation, rule, order, policy, determination, directive, authorization, permit, privilege, require- ment, designation, or other action. (b) No suit, action, or other proceeding lawfully commenced by or against the head of any agency or other officer of the United States, in his official capacity or in relation to the discharge of his official duties, shall abate by reason of the taking effect of any reor- ganization under the provisions of this Act, but the court may, on motion or supplemental petition filed at any time within twelve months after such reorganization takes effect, showing a necessity for a survival of such suit? action, or other proceeding to obtain a settlement of the questions involved, allow the same to be maintained by or against the successor of such head or officer under the reor- ganization so effected or, if there be no such successor, against such agency or officer as the President shall designate. UNEXPENDED APPROPRIATIONS SEC. 10. The appropriations or portions of appropriations unex- pended by reason of the operation of this Act shall not be used for any purpose, but shall be impounded and returned to the Treasury. PRINING OF IEORGANIZATION PLANS SEc. 11 . If the reorganizations specified in a reorganization plan take effect, the reorganization plan shall be printed in the Statutes at Large in the same volume as the public laws, and shall be printed in the Federal Register. TITLE II SEC. 201. The following sections of this title are enacted by the Congress: (a) As an exercise of the rule-making power of the Senate and the House of Representatives, respectively, and as such they shall be considered as part of the rules of each House, respectively, but appli- cable only with respect to the procedure to be followed in such House in the case of resolutions (as defined in section 202); and such rules shall supersede other rules only to the extent that they are inconsist- ent therewith; and (b) With full recognition of the constitutional right of either House to change such rules (so far as relating to the procedure in such House) at any time, in the same manner and to the same extent as in the case of any other rule of such House. 617 Applicability of existing law, regula- tions, etc. "Regulationorother action." Suits, proeedinp. etc. Concurrent resolu- tions: rules. Applicability. Modificatio.