Singapore legislation
Clause 67
Clause 67
Savings and transitional provisions
(1)
The person who, immediately before the appointed day, is the Chief Inspector shall be deemed to be the Commissioner for Workplace Safety and Health appointed under section 7(1) of this Act, but his appointment as the Commissioner shall expire on the day his appointment as Chief Inspector would have expired if this Act had not been enacted.
(2)
Any person who, immediately before the appointed day, is an inspector or officer appointed under section 84(1) of the repealed Act shall continue to hold such office as if he were appointed under section 7(3) of this Act.
(3)
Every person who, immediately before the appointed day, is —
a safety officer under section 71 of the repealed Act; or
a safety co-ordinator under section 71A of the repealed Act,shall continue in such appointments as if he were appointed as a workplace safety and health officer or a workplace safety and health co-ordinator under section 28 of this Act, respectively, and their respective appointments shall expire on the day their appointments would have expired if this Act had not been enacted.
(4)
Every safety committee established under section 72 of the repealed Act immediately before the appointed day shall, subject to the provisions of this Act, be deemed to be a workplace safety and health committee established under section 29 of this Act.
(5)
Every person who, immediately before the appointed day, is an approved auditor under section 71B of the repealed Act shall continue in such appointments as if he were appointed as a workplace safety and health auditor under section 30 of this Act, and his appointment shall expire on the day his appointment would have expired if this Act had not been enacted.
(6)
Every person who, immediately before the appointed day, is an approved person or authorised boiler inspector approved by the Chief Inspector under the repealed Act shall continue in such appointment as if he were an authorised examiner appointed under section 33 of this Act, and his appointment shall expire on the day his appointment would have expired if this Act had not been enacted.
(7)
Any permit, certificate or report, made, granted or approved under the repealed Act or its subsidiary legislation shall, so far as it is not inconsistent with the provisions of this Act and except as otherwise expressly provided in this Act or in any other written law, continue and be deemed to have been made, granted or approved under the corresponding provisions of this Act.
(8)
Any application or other document lodged for approval under the provisions of the repealed Act before the appointed day and whose application was not approved before that day shall, where applicable, be deemed to be an application or a document lodged for approval under the corresponding provisions of this Act.
(9)
Where an appeal has been made to the Minister under section 50 of the repealed Act and the appeal has not been dealt with or disposed of immediately before the appointed day, the appeal may be dealt with in accordance with that repealed section as if this Act had not been enacted.
(10)
This Act shall not affect —
any investigation or inquiry commenced or pending under Part V of the repealed Act before the appointed day, and every such investigation or inquiry may be continued and everything in relation thereto may be done in all respects after that day as if this Act had not been enacted;
the continued operation or force of any order, direction or decision of the Chief Inspector or the Minister made under the repealed Act before the appointed day; and
any right of appeal accrued before the appointed day in respect of any such order, direction or decision.
(11)
Any factory which, immediately before the appointed day, is registered under the repealed Act shall be deemed to be registered under the provisions of this Act.
(12)
Any approval, notice, direction, order, requirement or exemption that —
is given, issued or made under the repealed Act; and
is in force immediately before the appointed day,shall have effect for the purposes of any corresponding provision of this Act, unless this Act otherwise provides.
(13)
Where any period of time specified in any provision in the repealed Act is current immediately before the appointed day, this Act shall have effect as if the corresponding provision in this Act had been in force when the period began to run; and (without prejudice to the foregoing) any period of time so specified and current shall be deemed for the purposes of this Act —
to run from the date or event from which it was running immediately before that day; and
to expire (subject to any provision of this Act for its extension) whenever it would have expired if this Act had not been enacted,and any rights, priorities, liabilities, reliefs, obligations, requirements, powers, duties or exemptions dependent on the beginning, duration or end of such a period as above-mentioned shall be under this Act as they were or would have been under that provision in the repealed Act.
(14)
Any subsidiary legislation made under the repealed Act and in force immediately before the appointed day shall, so far as it is not inconsistent with the provisions of this Act, continue in force in factories as if made under this Act until it is revoked or repealed.
(15)
Any written law or document referring to the repealed Act or any provision thereof shall, as far as may be necessary for preserving its effect, be construed as referring or as including a reference to this Act or the corresponding provision in this Act, as the case may be.
(16)
For a period of 2 years after the appointed day, the Minister may, by regulations, prescribe such other transitional, incidental and consequential matters arising from the repeal of the repealed Act, as he may consider necessary or expedient.
(17)
In this section, “appointed day” means the date of commencement of this Act.