Singapore legislation
Clause 22
Clause 22
Savings and transitional provisions
(1)
Every legal aid certificate granted under the principal Act in force immediately before the appointed day shall —
have the same force and effect as if it were a Grant of Aid issued under the principal Act as amended by this Act; and
continue to be valid for the unexpired part of the validity period it would have had under the principal Act in force immediately before the appointed day.
(2)
Every application for legal aid made before the appointed day under the principal Act in force immediately before the appointed day and pending on that day shall be deemed to be an application for a Grant of Aid under the principal Act as amended by this Act.
(3)
Subject to subsection (4), every notice given and any act or thing done under the principal Act in force immediately before the appointed day shall have the same force and effect as if they were done under the principal Act as amended by this Act.
(4)
Where a solicitor has been excluded from a panel of solicitors by the Director under section 4 of the principal Act in force immediately before the appointed day, the provisions of that section shall continue to apply to him in respect of that exclusion as if this Act had not been enacted.
(5)
For a period of 2 years after the appointed day, the Minister may make regulations prescribing such additional provisions of a transitional or savings nature as he may consider necessary or expedient.
(6)
In this section, “appointed day” means the date of commencement of this Act.