26. Notwithstanding anything contained in any other law for the time being in force or in any contract or agreement or in any other instrument, upon the establishment of the Board-(a) all textile facility centres, hereinafter referred to as the said facility centres, existing immediately before the establishment of the Board and administered by the Bangladesh Small and Cottage Industries Corporation established under section 3 of the Bangladesh Small and Cottage Industries Corporation Act, 1957 (E.P. Act XVII of 1957), or, as the case may be, by any other Government agency shall, along with all their assets, liabilities and obligations, including all rights, powers, authorities and privileges and all properties, movable and immovable, funds, cash and bank balances, grants and all other interests and rights in, or arising out of, such properties and books and accounts, registers, records and all other documents of whatever nature relating thereto, stand transferred to, and vested in, the Board; and(b) services of such officers and other employees of the said facility centres as the Government may direct, shall notwithstanding anything contained in any contract or agreement or in the terms and conditions of service, stand transferred to the Board and they shall be deemed to be officers and other employees of the Board appointed by it on the same terms and conditions of service as were applicable to them before their transfer unless such terms and conditions are altered, not being to their disadvantage, by the Board; and(c) all suits and other proceedings instituted by or against the said facility centres before their transfer shall be deemed to have been instituted by or against the Board.