Clause 128

Any fund, scheme, contract, document, licence, permission or resolution constituted, prepared, made, granted or approved under the Ports Ordinance (Cap. 208) and the Port Dues Ordinance, 1960 (Ord. 22 of 1960), as well as under the provisions of the Merchant Shipping Ordinance (Cap. 207) relating to such functions as are transferred to the Authority under this Ordinance, shall, except where otherwise expressly provided in this Ordinance or in any other written law, continue and be deemed to have been constituted, prepared, made, granted or approved, as the case may be, under this Ordinance.

Notwithstanding any other provisions of this Ordinance and the repeal by this Ordinance of any written law, any subsidiary legislation made under such repealed written law shall remain in force until it has been revoked or replaced by subsidiary legislation issued or made under this Ordinance:Provided that the Minister may, by order published in the Gazette, vary, amend, extend or revoke such subsidiary legislation so remaining in force or any part thereof as he thinks fit.

All sums of money due or becoming due to the Singapore Harbour Board in respect of property held on behalf of the Government shall, upon the coming into operation of this Ordinance, be deemed to be or become due to the Authority.

All deeds, bonds, agreements, instruments and working arrangements, subsisting immediately before the coming into operation of this Ordinance, affecting any of the assets and liabilities vested in the Authority under this Ordinance, shall have as full force and effect against or in favour of the Authority, and be enforceable as fully and effectually as if, instead of the Singapore Harbour Board or the Government or any person acting on behalf thereof, the Authority had been named therein or had been a party thereto.

Any proceeding or cause of action pending or existing immediately prior to the coming into operation of this Ordinance by or against the Government or the Singapore Harbour Board in respect of any functions or assets which under and by virtue of this Ordinance are transferred to and vested in the Authority, may be continued and enforced by or against the Authority as it might have been by or against the Government or the Singapore Harbour Board, as the case may be, had this Ordinance not come into operation.

In any written law and in any document whatsoever, unless the context otherwise requires, any reference to —