Clause 45

Any scheme, certificate, document, licence or permit granted before the commencement of this Act under the repealed Control of Imports and Exports Act [Cap. 56] or the repealed Registration of Imports and Exports Act [Cap. 270] or any order, rules or regulations made thereunder shall, except as otherwise expressly provided in this Act or in any other written law, continue and be deemed to have been granted or approved under the corresponding provisions of this Act or the regulations made thereunder.

Any subsidiary legislation made under the repealed Control of Imports and Exports Act or the repealed Registration of Imports and Exports Act and in force immediately before the commencement of this Act shall, so far as it is not inconsistent with the provisions of this Act, continue in force as if made under this Act until it is revoked or cancelled by subsidiary legislation made under this Act.

Any reference in any written law to the repealed Control of Imports and Exports Act or the repealed Registration of Imports and Exports Act shall be read as a reference to this Act.

Any proceedings or cause of action pending or existing immediately before the commencement of this Act by or against the Board or any person acting on behalf of the Board under the repealed Control of Imports and Exports Act or the repealed Registration of Imports and Exports Act may be continued and enforced by or against the Board as it might have been continued and enforce by or against the Board or such person as if this Act had not been enacted.

Any appointment made under the repealed Control of Imports and Exports Act and any person authorised under the repealed Registration of Imports and Exports Act shall, except as otherwise expressly provided in this Act, be deemed to have been made or authorised, as the case may be, under the corresponding provision of this Act.

The Minister may, by order published in the Gazette, repeal or amend any written law which appears to him to be unnecessary having regard to the provisions of this Act to be inconsistent with any provision of this Act.