Singapore legislation
Clause 22
Clause 22
Saving and transitional provisions
(1)
Every application for legal aid that is pending immediately before the date of commencement of section 7 must be treated as if made under the principal Act as amended by that section (called in this section the Amended Act).
(2)
A board constituted for the purposes of section 8(1) of the principal Act as in force immediately before the date of commencement of section 7 must be treated as if it were a board constituted for the purposes of section 8(1)(b)(ii) of the Amended Act.
(3)
An opinion formed by a board under section 8(2)(a) of the principal Act as in force immediately before the date of commencement of section 7, in connection with any proceedings must be treated as if it were —
in any case where those proceedings are prescribed proceedings or belong to a prescribed class of proceedings mentioned in section 8(1)(b)(i) of the Amended Act — an opinion formed on that date by the Director; or
in any other case — an opinion formed on that date by a board constituted for the purposes of section 8(1)(b)(ii) of the Amended Act.
(4)
Where the Director is satisfied, before the date of commencement of section 7, of the matters mentioned in section 8(2)(b)(i) and (ii) of the principal Act as in force immediately before that date, the applicant is deemed to have satisfied, on that date, the prescribed means criteria mentioned in section 8(1)(a) of the Amended Act.
(5)
Any authorisation of the Minister under section 8(4) of the principal Act as in force immediately before the date of commencement of section 7 is deemed to be an authorisation of the Minister under section 8(4)(a) of the Amended Act.
(6)
For a period of 2 years after the date of commencement of any provision of this Act, the Minister may, by regulations, prescribe such additional provisions of a saving or transitional nature consequent on the enactment of that provision as the Minister may consider necessary or expedient.