{In this paper we continue a study of relationships between the lateral partial order $\sqsubseteq$ in a vector lattice (the relation $x \sqsubseteq y$ means that $x$ is a fragment of $y$) and the theory of orthogonally additive operators on vector lattices. It was shown in~\cite{pMPP} that the concepts of lateral ideal and lateral band play the same important role in the theory of orthogonally additive operators as ideals and bands play in the theory for linear operators in vector lattices. We show that, for a vector lattice $E$ and a lateral band $G$ of~$E$, there
exists a vector lattice~$F$ and a positive, disjointness preserving
orthogonally additive operator $T \colon E \to F$ such that ${\rm ker} \,
T = G$. As a consequence, we partially resolve the following open problem suggested in \cite{pMPP}:
Are there a vector lattice~$E$ and a lateral ideal in $E$ which is not equal to
the kernel of any positive orthogonally additive operator $T\colon E\to F$ for any vector lattice $F$?
Our main result asserts that, under some assumptions, the uniformly-to-order continuity of an order bounded orthogonally additive operator between vector lattices together with its horizontally-to-order continuity implies its order continuity (we say that a mapping f : E → F between vector lattices E and F is horizontally-to-order continuous provided f sends laterally increasing order convergent nets in E to order convergent nets in F, and f is uniformly-to-order continuous provided f sends uniformly convergent nets to order convergent nets).
We generalize the notion of a laterally convergent net from increasing nets to general ones and study the corresponding lateral continuity of maps. The main result asserts that, the lateral continuity of an orthogonally additive operator is equivalent to its continuity at zero. This theorem holds for operators that send laterally convergent nets to any type convergent nets (laterally, order or norm convergent).