Clause 51

Nothing in this Act shall be construed to affect any obligation or liability accrued or incurred under a lease for a flat in any residential or commercial property or for a stall in any market or food centre of the Board within a Town at any time prior to the establishment of the Town Council.

Any cause of action which has arisen between any such owner or tenant and the Board prior to the establishment of the Town Council may be continued and enforced as if this Act has not been enacted.

Nothing in this Act shall affect any rights or remedies that the Board or an owner or tenant of a flat in any residential or commercial property may have in relation to the flat or the common property, or any function of the Board, apart from this Act.

Any contract made by the Board before the date of commencement of this Act and subsisting on that date which relates to the maintenance of the common property of any residential or commercial property of the Board shall be deemed to contain a provision conferring upon the Board the right to assign, without the consent of the other party to the contract, the contract or the benefits, rights, duties and obligations under the contract or any part thereof to any Town Council; and any assignment made pursuant to this subsection shall be exempt from any duties under the Stamp Duties Act (Cap. 312).