Singapore legislation
Section 29
Section 29
Continuation and completion of disciplinary proceedings
(1)
Where on 1st April 1996 —
any disciplinary proceedings were pending against any employee of the National Productivity Board or the Singapore Institute of Standards and Industrial Research transferred to the service of the Board under section 26, the proceedings shall be carried on and completed by the Board; and
any matter was in the course of being heard or investigated or had been heard or investigated by a committee acting under due authority but no order, ruling or decision had been made thereon, the committee shall complete the hearing or investigation and shall make such order, ruling or direction as it could have made under the authority vested in it before that date.
(2)
Any order, ruling or direction made by a 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 by the Board pursuant to the authority vested in the Board under this Act.[28