Singapore legislation
Clause 19
Clause 19
Saving and transitional provisions
(1)
The change in the corporate name of the body corporate from the Singapore Workforce Development Agency to the Workforce Singapore Agency on the date of commencement of this Act (called in this section the appointed day) does not operate —
to create a new legal entity;
to prejudice or affect the identity of the body corporate or its continuity as a body corporate; (c)to affect the property of, or the exercise of any right or the enforcement of any obligation by or against, the body corporate in relation to the retained undertaking; or
to render defective any legal proceedings by or against the body corporate in relation to the retained undertaking,and any legal proceedings in relation to the retained undertaking that might have been continued or started by or against the body corporate in its former corporate name of Singapore Workforce Development Agency may be continued or started by or against it by its new corporate name “Workforce Singapore Agency”.
(2)
Upon the appointed day, any court ruling, order or judgment in favour of or against the body corporate by its former corporate name and relating to the retained undertaking may be enforced by or against the body corporate by its new name “Workforce Singapore Agency”.
(3)
Every agreement relating to the retained undertaking to which the body corporate by its former corporate name was a party immediately before the appointed day (whether or not of such nature that the rights and liabilities under the agreement may be assigned) has effect as from that day as if —
the body corporate called the Workforce Singapore Agency was a party to such an agreement instead; and
for any reference to the body corporate by its former corporate name, there were substituted in respect of anything to be done on or after that date a reference to the Workforce Singapore Agency.
(4)
Every individual who, immediately before the appointed day, is a member, the Chairman or the Deputy Chairman of the Singapore Workforce Development Agency continues to hold that office as if appointed under the principal Act as amended by this Act; and their respective appointments (unless earlier terminated) expire on the date they would have expired if this Act had not been enacted.
(5)
For a period of 2 years after the appointed day, the Minister may, by regulations, prescribe such additional provisions of a saving or transitional nature consequent on the enactment of this Act as the Minister may consider necessary or expedient.
(6)
In this section, “retained undertaking” means so much of the undertaking of the Singapore Workforce Development Agency that, on the eve of the appointed day, is not comprised in the departments transferred to the SkillsFuture Singapore Agency under Part 8 of the SkillsFuture Singapore Agency Act 2016.