Singapore legislation

Clause 37

of Singapore Workforce Development Agency Bill

Clause 37

Continuation and completion of disciplinary proceedings and other legal proceedings

(1)

Where, on the appointed day, any disciplinary proceedings were pending against any employee of the transferring body transferred to the service of the Agency, the proceedings shall be carried on and completed by the Agency.

(2)

Where, on the appointed day, any matter was in the course of being heard or investigated or had been heard or investigated by a committee acting under due authority but no order, ruling or direction had been made thereon, the committee shall complete the hearing or investigation and shall make such order, ruling or direction as it could have made under the authority vested in it before that day.

(3)

Any order, ruling or direction made by a committee under this section shall be treated as an order, a ruling or a direction of the Agency and have the same force or effect as if it had been made by the Agency pursuant to the authority vested in the Agency under this Act.

(4)

All proceedings or causes of action pending or existing immediately before the appointed day by or against a transferring body in respect of its transferred agency may be continued, completed and enforced by or against the Agency.