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CUSTOMS ADMINISTRATION (TRANSITIONAL PROVISIONS AND CONSEQUENTIAL AMENDMENTS) ACT 1986 No. 10 of 1986 - SECT 4

4. (1) Where-

   (a)  a Minister, or a delegate of a Minister, made an appointment, gave an
        authorisation or direction, granted a permission, approval or
        exemption, made a determination, declaration, order, requirement or
        by-law, gave or published a notice or signed or issued any other
        instrument before the commencement of this section under a power
        conferred on that Minister by a provision of an Act;

   (b)  that provision is amended by this Act with effect from that
        commencement so as to confer that power on the Comptroller-General of
        Customs; and

   (c)  that appointment, authorisation, direction, permission, approval,
        exemption, determination, declaration, order, requirement, by-law,
        notice or other instrument was in force immediately before that
        commencement, the appointment, authorisation, direction, permission,
        approval, exemption, determination, declaration, order, requirement,
        by-law, notice or other instrument continues in force after that
        commencement as if it had been duly made, given, granted, published,
        signed or issued, as the case may be, by the Comptroller-General of
        Customs under that provision as so amended.

(2) Where-

   (a)  a Minister, or a delegate of a Minister, did, or refused to do, before
        the commencement of this section any act or thing not mentioned in
        sub-section (1) under a power conferred on that Minister by a
        provision of an Act; and

   (b)  that provision is amended by this Act with effect from that
        commencement so as to confer that power on the Comptroller-General of
        Customs, the Act in which that provision was included, as that Act has
        effect as amended by this Act, applies as if the Comptroller-General
        had duly done, or refused to do, as the case may be, that act or
        thing.

(3) Where the Comptroller-General of Customs, or a delegate of the
Comptroller-General of Customs, published a notice in the Gazette before the
commencement of this section under the power conferred on the
Comptroller-General of Customs by sub-section 25 (1) of the
Customs Tariff Act  1982 , the notice continues in force after that
commencement as if it had been duly published by the Minister for Industry,
Technology and Commerce under sub-section 25 (1) of the
Customs Tariff Act 1982 as amended by this Act and may be revoked by that
Minister in accordance with sub-section 25 (3) of that Act as so amended.

(4) Where a notice that was published in the Gazette by a Minister, or a
delegate of a Minister, before the commencement of the Customs Administration 
(Transitional Provisions and Consequential Amendments) Act 1985 under the
power conferred on that Minister by sub-section 25 (1) of the Customs Tariff 
Act 1982 -

   (a)  has, by virtue of section 4 of the Customs Administration
        (Transitional Provisions and Consequential Amendments) Act 1985,
        continued in force after that commencement as if it had been published
        by the Comptroller-General of Customs under sub-section 25 (1) of the
        Customs Tariff Act 1982 as amended by the
        Customs Administration (Transitional Provisions and Consequential 
        Amendments) Act 1985 ; and

   (b)  was in force immediately before the commencement of this section, the
        notice has, after the commencement of this section, the effect that it
        would have if sub-section 25 (1) of the Customs Tariff Act 1982 had
        not been amended by the
        Customs Administration (Transitional Provisions and Consequential 
        Amendments) Act 1985 and section 4 of that last-mentioned Act had not
        been enacted.
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