(1) All functions that, immediately before the establishment day, were vested in the Data Protection Commissioner are transferred to the Commission.

(2) A reference in any enactment or instrument under an enactment to the Data Protection Commissioner or to the Office of the Data Protection Commissioner shall be construed as a reference to the Commission.

(3) A reference in the Act of 1988 (other than in section 1(3)(c)(iii) in so far as it refers to the Commissioner of the Garda Síochána) to the Commissioner shall be construed as a reference to the Commission.

(4) This section shall come into operation on the establishment day.