If Article 1 (commencing with Section 200) ceases to be effective, all regulations adopted pursuant to that article which are in effect on the day of final adjournment of the regular session of the Legislature in the year in which the article ceases to have effect are continued as statutory enactments and shall have the same force and effect as if enacted by the Legislature. Whenever, in any such regulation of the commission continued under this section, a period of time is designated with reference to a particular year, that period of time is applicable on a continuing basis in each succeeding year. All regulations of the commission, insofar as practicable, shall be phrased in general terms to facilitate the operation of this section.