Singapore legislation
Clause 61
Clause 61
Repeal and transitional
(1)
The Destruction of Disease-Bearing Insects Act (Cap. 79) is repealed.
(2)
Any appointment, document, permission, resolution or scheme relating to any matter dealt with under this Act which was made, granted or approved under the repealed Destruction of Disease-Bearing Insects Act shall, except where otherwise expressly provided in this Act or in any other written law, continue and be deemed to have been made, granted or approved, as the case may be, under this Act.
(3)
Any form used for the purposes of the repealed Destruction of Disease-Bearing Insects Act which was in force or effected immediately before the commencement of this Act shall continue in force and have effect as though prescribed under this Act until new forms are so prescribed.
(4)
Notwithstanding anything in this Act, every person who immediately before the date of commencement of this Act had been a vector control operator, a vector control technician or a vector control worker shall be entitled to continue acting as such —
for a period of one month from that date; and
if before the expiry of that period he applies for registration as a vector control operator or for the grant of a vector control technician's licence or a vector control worker's certificate, until the date on which his application is granted, refused or withdrawn.