Section 17

Where, on the date of commencement of this Part, any disciplinary proceedings were pending before the Lembaga or the Industrial Training Board, the proceedings shall be taken up and continued under and in conformity with the provisions of this Act so far as consistently may be; but where on that date any matter was in the course of being heard or investigated by the Lembaga or the Industrial Training Board or had been heard or investigated by the Lembaga or the Industrial Training Board, but no order or decision had been made thereon, the Lembaga or the Industrial Training Board shall continue to exist, notwithstanding this Act, for the purpose of completing the hearing or investigation and the making of an order or decision, as the case may be.

For the purposes of completing a hearing or investigation before it, or making an order or rendering a decision on a matter heard or investigated before that date, the Lembaga or the Industrial Training Board shall complete the hearing or investigation in accordance with the authority vested in the Lembaga or the Industrial Training Board immediately before that date and make such order, rule or direction as the Lembaga or the Industrial Training Board should have made under the authority vested in it immediately before that date.

Any order, rule or direction made or given by the Lembaga or the Industrial Training Board pursuant to this section shall be entered as an order or a rule or direction of the Board and shall have the same force or effect as if it had been made by the Board pursuant to the authority vested in the Board under this Act.