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FARM PRODUCE ACT 1983 - SCHEDULE 2

SCHEDULE 2 – Savings and transitional provisions

(Section 57)

1 Definitions

In this Schedule:
"appointed day" means the day appointed and notified under section 2 (2).
"former Act" means the Farm Produce Agents Act 1926 .

2 Former licences to have no effect after appointed day

(1) A licence issued under the former Act and in force immediately before the appointed day ceases to have any effect on and from the appointed day.

(2) No refund shall be payable in respect of any part of the fee paid in respect of a licence, or the annual renewal of a licence, which ceases to have effect as referred to in subclause (1).

3 Registrar and deputy registrar

The persons holding the offices of registrar and deputy registrar under the former Act shall be deemed to have been appointed as registrar and deputy registrar, respectively, under this Act.

4 Bonds given under former Act

(1) A bond given to the registrar appointed under the former Act and in force immediately before the appointed day shall be deemed to be given to the registrar appointed under this Act and shall be enforceable by the registrar appointed under this Act in the same way as it would be enforceable by the registrar appointed under the former Act if this Act were not enacted.

(2) Except as provided by subsection (1), the repeal of the former Act shall not affect a bond given under that Act.

5 Books etc kept under former Act

This Act and the regulations apply to and in respect of books, documents and other records required to be kept or made by or under the former Act in the same way as they apply to and in respect of books, documents and other records required to be kept or made by or under this Act.

6 References to former Act and licences under former Act

A reference to the former Act or to a licence under or issued under the former Act in any Act (other than this Act) or in any instrument made under any such Act shall, except in so far as the context may otherwise require, be respectively read and construed as a reference to this Act or a licence under this Act.

7 Regulations

(1) The Governor may make regulations containing other provisions of a savings or transitional nature consequent on the enactment of this Act.

(2) A provision made under subclause (1) may take effect as from the date of assent to this Act or a later day.

(3) To the extent to which a provision referred to in subclause (1) takes effect from a date that is earlier than the date of its publication in the Gazette, the provision does not operate so as:

(a) to affect, in a manner prejudicial to any person (other than the State or a public authority), the rights of that person existing before the date of its publication therein, or

(b) to impose liabilities on any person (other than the State or a public authority) in respect of anything done or omitted to be done before the date of its publication therein.

(4) A provision made under subclause (1) shall, if the regulations expressly so provide, have effect notwithstanding the foregoing clauses of this Schedule.