5. This act shall not affect actions or proceedings, civil or criminal, brought by or against the schools, institutes, and centers of the University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey being transferred to Rutgers, The State University pursuant to this act, but such actions, or proceedings may be prosecuted or defended in the same manner and to the same effect by Rutgers, The State University, as if the foregoing provisions had not taken effect; nor shall any of the foregoing provisions affect any order or regulation made by, or other matters or proceedings before, the schools, institutes, and centers of the University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey being transferred to Rutgers, The State University pursuant to this act, and all such matters or proceedings pending before the schools, institutes, and centers of the University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey being transferred to Rutgers, The State University pursuant to this act, on the effective date of this act shall be continued by Rutgers, The State University, as if the foregoing provisions had not taken effect.

L.2012, c.45, s.5.