Clause 20

Where on the appointed day any disciplinary proceedings against any person transferred to the service of the Institute under section 19 were pending before the Vocational and Industrial Training Board, the proceedings against the person shall be taken up and continued under and in conformity with the provisions of this Act so far as consistently may be; but where on that day any matter was in the course of being heard or investigated by the Vocational and Industrial Training Board or had been heard or investigated by that Board, but no order or decision had been made thereon, that Board shall continue to exist, notwithstanding this Act, for the purpose of completing the hearing or investigation and the making of an order or 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 appointed day, the Vocational and Industrial Training Board shall complete the hearing or investigation in accordance with the authority vested in that Board immediately before that day and make such order, ruling or direction as the Board could have made under the authority vested in it immediately before that day.

Any order, ruling or direction made or given by the Vocational and Industrial Training Board pursuant to this section shall be entered as an order, ruling or direction of the Institute and shall have the same force or effect as if it had been made or given by the Institute pursuant to the authority vested in the Institute under this Act.