This act shall not affect actions or proceedings, civil or criminal, brought by or against any of the respective boards or agencies enumerated in section four of this act and pending on the effective date hereof, and such actions or proceedings may be prosecuted or defended in the same manner and to the same effect by such board or agency as if the foregoing provisions had not taken effect; nor shall any of the foregoing provisions affect any order or recommendation made by, or other matters or proceedings before, any of such respective boards or agencies, and all such matters and proceedings pending before any such board or agency on the effective date of this act shall be continued before such board or agency.

L.1948, c. 444, p. 1755, s. 23.