Singapore legislation
Clause 33
Clause 33
Saving and transitional provisions
(1)
Sections 7, 8(d), 13(a) and 16 do not require any individual who, on the eve of the respective dates of commencement of those sections, is an elected member of a Town Council, an appointed member of a Town Council, a secretary to a Town Council and a member of a committee established by a Town Council, respectively, to complete a declaration of acceptance until the individual ceases to hold that office and becomes an elected member of a Town Council or is re‑appointed as an appointed member, a secretary to or a member of a committee of that Town Council, as the case may be.
(2)
Sections 8(c), 13(a) and (b) and 16 do not disqualify any individual who, on the eve of the respective dates of commencement of those sections, is anyone of the following from continuing to hold that office or position on or after that date:
an appointed member of a Town Council;
a secretary to a Town Council;
a key officer of a Town Council;
a member of a committee established by a Town Council,provided that the individual gives to the Town Council, no later than 30 days after that date, a declaration whether the individual is subject to any disqualification in section 14, 20 or 31 of the principal Act as amended by this Act.
(3)
On the date of commencement of section 15(a), all by‑laws made by a Town Council for the purpose of the management, administration, control, use or enjoyment of the common property of the residential and commercial property in the housing estates of the Board within the Town cease to have force.
(4)
Section 26(b) does not apply to any offence alleged to have been committed before the date of commencement of that section.
(5)
For a period of 2 years after the date of commencement of any section of this Act, the Minister may, by regulations, prescribe such additional provisions of a saving or transitional nature consequent on the enactment of that section as the Minister may consider necessary or expedient.
(6)
Nothing in this section affects the operation of section 16 of the Interpretation Act (Cap. 1).