Clause 12

This Act shall not apply to any treatment for sexual sterilization started before the date of commencement of this section, and the principal Act in force immediately before that date shall continue to apply to such treatment as if this Act had not been enacted.

Any hospital, maternity home, clinic or other place approved before the date of commencement of section 2 to be an approved institution for the purposes of the principal Act shall be deemed to be a health institution for the purposes of the principal Act as amended by this Act until such date as that approval would have expired if this Act had not been enacted.

Any consent to treatment for sexual sterilization to be carried out after the date of commencement of section 3(b), which consent is validly given under section 3(2) of the principal Act before the date of commencement of section 3(b), shall be deemed to satisfy the requisite conditions referred to in section 3(2) of the principal Act as amended by this Act.

For a period of 2 years after the date of commencement of this section, the Minister may, by regulations published in the Gazette, prescribe such saving or transitional provisions as he may consider necessary or expedient.