(a) There is hereby established within the Agency the Massachusetts Export Development Fund, referred to in this section and section 7 as the fund and which shall be the successor to the Massachusetts Export Finance Fund. Said Massachusetts Export Development Fund shall receive state, federal, and private monies and the return from investment generated thereby, and allocate the same for the purposes of the export finance program. Said fund shall consist of a separate account or accounts segregated from other Agency funds and to which shall be credited any state appropriation or funding from any other source, public or private, which may be made available to the fund. Notwithstanding the provisions of any general or special law to the contrary, the Agency shall utilize the fund, and be empowered to so utilize the fund, as provided in section 7.