Section 62F--
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'(1) The first senior executives of a GOC may be appointed under section 168 before the commencement of a regulation declaring the candidate GOC to be a GOC.
'(2) For acting under the section--
(a) a reference in the section to the GOC's board is taken to be a reference to the candidate GOC's board of directors; and
(b) a reference in the section to the shareholding Ministers is taken to be a reference to the responsible Ministers of the candidate GOC.'.