Singapore legislation

Clause 20

Savings and transitional provisions

(1)

Any certificate of statutory completion or temporary occupation permit issued under section 21 of the principal Act before the appointed day shall continue and be deemed to have been issued under the principal Act as amended by section 3 of this Act.

(2)

Any application or other document lodged for approval under the provisions of the principal 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 principal Act as amended by section 3 of this Act.

(3)

Where any appeal has been made to the Minister under Part II of the principal Act before the appointed day and the appeal has not been dealt with or disposed of immediately before that day, the appeal may be dealt with in accordance with the principal Act as if this Act had not been enacted.

(4)

Any person who, immediately before the appointed day, is registered as an accredited checker or accredited checking organisation shall be deemed to be registered under the provisions of the principal Act as amended by section 3 of this Act, and any register of accredited checkers or register of accredited checking organisations kept and maintained under the provisions of the principal Act shall continue and be deemed to be kept and maintained under the provisions of the principal Act as amended by section 3 of this Act.

(5)

Every person who, immediately before the appointed day, is appointed under the provisions of the principal Act as a qualified person, builder or site supervisor shall continue in such appointments as if he is appointed as such under the principal Act as amended by section 3 of this Act, and their respective appointments shall expire on the day their appointments would have expired if this Act had not been enacted.

(6)

Every committee established before the appointed day under the provisions of Part II of the principal Act —

(a)

to assist the Commissioner of Building Control in considering applications for registration as accredited checkers or accredited checking organisations; or

(b)

to assist the Commissioner of Building Control in considering any representation that may be made against his exercising any power to suspend or cancel the registration of an accredited checker or accredited checking organisation,shall be deemed to be a committee established under the principal Act as amended by this Act.

(7)

Where any period of time is specified in any provision in Part II of the principal Act in force immediately before the appointed day, any period of time so specified and current shall be deemed for the purposes of the principal Act as amended by this Act —

(a)

to run from the date or event from which it was running immediately before that day; and

(b)

to expire (subject to any provision of the principal Act as amended by this Act for its extension) whenever it would have expired if this Act had not been enacted.

(8)

This Act shall not affect —

(a)

the continued operation or force of any order, direction or decision of the Commissioner of Building Control or the Minister made under Part II of the principal Act before the appointed day, and any right of appeal accrued before the appointed day in respect of any such order, direction or decision; and

(b)

the continued operation or force of any order, direction or decision of the Commissioner of Building Control or the Minister made under any provision of Part IV of the principal Act before the commencement of section 6 of this Act.

(9)

In this section, “appointed day” means the date of commencement of section 3 of this Act.

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