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3. Any person holding the office of Prime Minister or other Minister by virtue of the provisions of sub-paragraphs (1) and (2) of this paragraph who, on 31st October 1981, was charged under the former Constitution with responsibility for any matter or any department of Government, shall, as from 1st November 1981, be deemed to have been assigned responsibility for the matter or department under section 71 of the Constitution. OFFICE OF ATTORNEY-GENERAL. 5.- Until Parliament or, subject to the provisions of any law enacted by Parliament, the Governor-General, acting in accordance with the advice of the Prime Minister, otherwise provides, the office of Attorney-General shall be that of a Minister. EXISTING PUBLIC OFFICERS. 6.- Subject to the provisions of the Constitution, every person who immediately before the commencement of the Constitution held or was acting in a public office under the former Constitution shall, as from the commencement of the Constitution, continue to hold or act in that office or the corresponding office established by the Constitution as if he had been appointed thereto in accordance with the provisions of the Constitution: Provided that any person who under the former Constitution or any other law in force immediately before such commencement would have been required to vacate his office at the expiration of any period shall vacate his office at the expiration of that period. SUPREME COURT ORDER. 7.- The West Indies Associated States Supreme Court Order 1967(a), in so far as it has effect as a law, may be cited as the Supreme Court Order and for the purposes of the Order or any other law -- a. the Supreme Court established by the Order shall, unless Parliament otherwise provides, be styled the Eastern Caribbean Supreme Court; and b. references in the Order to the Premier of Antigua or to the Premier of any independent State shall be construed as references to the Prime Minister of Antigua and Barbuda or, as the case may be, to the Prime Minister of that other State. APPEALS ORDER. 8.- The West Indies Associated States (Appeals to Privy Council) Order 1967( b ) may, in its application to Antigua and Barbuda, be cited as the Antigua and Barbuda Appeals to Privy Council Order and shall, to the extent that it has effect as a law, have effect as if the expression "Courts Order" included any law altering the Supreme Court Order and as if section 3 were revoked. PROTECTION FROM DEPRIVATION OF PROPERTY. 9.- Nothing in section 9 of the Constitution shall effect the operation of any law in force immediately before 27th February 1967 or any law made on or after that date that alters a law in force immediately before that date and does not -- a. add to the kinds of property that may be taken possession of or the rights over and interests in property that may be acquired; b. make the conditions governing entitlement to compensation or the amount thereof less favourable to any person owning or having an interest in the property; or c. deprive any person of such right as is mentioned in subsection (2) of that section. COMMONWEALTH CITIZEN. 10.- Until such time as Parliament otherwise prescribes, the expression "Commonwealth citizen" shall have the meaning assigned to it by the British Nationality Act 1948. INTERPRETATION 11.- In this schedule --