Section 31

Where on 1 September 1995, any disciplinary proceedings are pending against any person transferred to the service of the Board under section 28, any committee acting under due authority to hear or investigate the matter shall continue to exist, notwithstanding this Act, for the purpose of completing the hearing or investigation and the making of an order or rendering a decision, as the case may be, and the Government or committee shall complete the hearing or investigation in accordance with the authority vested in the Government or committee immediately before that date and make such order, ruling or direction as the Government or committee could have made under the authority vested in it immediately before that date.

Any order, ruling or direction made or given by the Government or committee pursuant to this section shall be treated as an order, a ruling or a direction of the Board and have the same force or effect as if it had been made or given by the Board pursuant to the power vested in the Board under this Act.