Clause 17

The Nurses Registration Act (Cap. 221) and the Midwives Act (Cap. 219) (hereinafter in this section referred to as “the repealed enactments”) are hereby repealed.

Any person whose name was on the day immediately preceding the date of the commencement of this Act entered on the register maintained under the Nurses Registration Act as a nurse shall be deemed to have been admitted to the register of nurses maintained pursuant to paragraph (a) of section 5.

Any person whose name was on the day immediately preceding the date of the commencement of this Act entered on the register maintained under the Nurses Registration Act as an assistant nurse shall be deemed to have been admitted to the roll of nurses maintained pursuant to paragraph (b) of section 5.

Any person whose name was on the day immediately preceding the date of the commencement of this Act entered on the register of midwives maintained under the Midwives Act shall be deemed to have been admitted to the register of midwives maintained pursuant to paragraph (c) of section 5.

Any certificate issued, notice or information given, return made or other thing done under the repealed enactments which, immediately preceding the date of the commencement of this Act, was of force or effect shall continue in force and have effect as if issued, given, made or done under the corresponding provisions of this Act.

Where, on the date of the commencement of this Act, any proceedings were pending before the Nursing Board or the Midwives Board (hereinafter in this section respectively referred to as “the former authority”), the proceedings shall be taken up and continued under and in conformity with the provisions under this Act and so far as consistently may be; but where, on the date of the commencement of this Act, any matter was in the course of being heard or investigated by the former authority or had been heard or investigated by the former authority but no order or decision had been rendered thereon the former authority 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.

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 the date of the commencement of this Act, the former authority shall complete the hearing or investigation in accordance with the authority vested in it immediately preceding the date of the commencement of this Act and make such order, rule, or direction as it should have made under the authority vested in it immediately preceding the date of the commencement of this Act.

An order, rule or direction made or given by the former authority pursuant to this section shall be entered as an order, rule or 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 authority vested in them under this Act.

Where any person being a person registered or enrolled as a nurse, an assistant nurse or a midwife under the repealed enactments has done any act or omitted to do anything in respect of which proceedings may be taken under the repealed enactments for the cancellation of any certificate or registration granted under the repealed enactments, proceedings may be taken under this Act in respect of the said act or omission after the date of the commencement of this Act in the like manner as if the act or omission has been committed or omitted under the corresponding provisions of this Act.