Northern Territory Consolidated Acts Northern Territory Consolidated Acts(1) The repeals effected by section 3 shall not:
(a) affect any probate, administration, order, matter or thing granted, made, given or done under or in pursuance of any of the repealed Acts; or
(b) affect any investigation, inquiry, legal or other proceedings in respect of any matter which the Public Trustee, under any of the repealed Acts, made or commenced.
(2) All matters saved by this section are, to the extent that they were respectively in force or in existence immediately before the passing of this Act, hereby preserved and continued and declared to have the same force and effect as if this Act had been in force when, respectively, they were done, suffered, omitted, created, granted, acquired, incurred, held, imposed or made or had accrued or become exercisable or liable to be imposed and they respectively had been done, suffered, omitted, created, granted, acquired, incurred, held, imposed or made or had accrued or had become exercisable or liable to be imposed under this Act.
(3) A matter or proceeding commenced under any Act repealed by this Act and pending or in progress at the passing of this Act may be continued and completed under this Act.
(4) All offences committed and all liabilities, forfeitures and penalties incurred or imposed or liable to be imposed before the passing of this Act may be tried, punished, inquired into and enforced under this Act.
(5) The common fund established by section 8 of the Public Trustee Act 1920 as amended and in force immediately prior to the commencement of this Act shall continue in force and form part of the common fund constituted under this Act and, notwithstanding the repeals effected by section 3, any action taken in relation to investment in that fund and the payment of interest earned on that fund pro rata by the Public Trustee established under the repealed Acts or the Curator of Estates of Deceased Persons appointed under the Administration and Probate Act at any time before the commencement of this Act is as valid and effectual as if section 8 of the Public Trustee Act 1920 as amended and in force immediately prior to the commencement of this Act was in force and provided for investment in the fund and payment of interest pro rata by the Public Trustee or the Curator of Estates of Deceased Persons at that time.