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STATUTE LAW (MISCELLANEOUS AMENDMENTS) ACT (No. 2) 1982 No. 80, 1982 - SECT 280

PART LXXVII-AMENDMENTS OF CERTAIN ACTS TO AMEND OR OMIT REFERENCES
TO VARIOUS MINISTERS, DEPARTMENTS AND PERMANENT HEADS

280. (1) The Acts specified in Column 1 of Schedule 12 are amended as set out
in Columns 2 and 3 of that Schedule.

(2) Where-

   (a)  before the commencement of this section, an Act contained a reference
to a particular Minister (in this sub-section referred to as the ''previous
Minister''), or to the Permanent Head or an officer of a particular Department
(in this sub-section referred to as the ''previous Department''); and

   (b)  by virtue of the operation of sub-section (1), a reference to another
        Minister, or to the Permanent Head or an officer of another
        Department, was substituted for the reference mentioned in paragraph
        (a), the reference to the other Minister or to the Permanent Head or
        officer of the other Department shall, in relation to the doing of any
        act or thing under the Act before 7 May 1982, be read as a reference
        to the previous Minister or to the Permanent Head or an officer of the
        previous Department, as the case may be.

(3) Where-

   (a)  immediately before the commencement of this section, there were
        pending in any court or tribunal any proceedings under an Act to which
        a particular Minister or the Permanent Head of a particular Department
        was, in his capacity as Minister or Permanent Head, a party;

   (b)  by virtue of the operation of sub-section (1), references to another
        Minister, or to the Permanent Head of another Department, were
        substituted for references in that Act to the Minister or Permanent
        Head mentioned in paragraph (a), those proceedings may be continued by
        or against the other Minister or the Permanent Head of that other
        Department, as the case may be.

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