Clause 20

Any certificate granted under the Rubber Shipping and Packing Control Act shall not be invalidated by the repeal of that enactment but shall have effect as if granted under the corresponding provision of this Act and shall continue until its date of expiry.

Where any person who immediately before the date of commencement of this Act was registered as a packer or shipper of rubber for export under the Rubber Shipping and Packing Control Act has done or omitted to do any act in respect of which the Board may cancel his registration under or a certificate issued pursuant to that enactment, he may be deprived of a licence issued under this Act as if the act was done or omitted to be done while he was duly licensed under this Act.

Where on the date of commencement of this Act any proceedings were pending before the Board for the cancellation of the registration of a packer or shipper of rubber for export under the Rubber Shipping and Packing Control Act and a certificate issued pursuant thereto, the proceedings shall be taken up and continued under and in conformity with the provisions of this Act, so far as consistently may be; but where on the date of commencement of this Act any matter was in the course of being heard or was investigated by the Board or the Tribunal of Appeal established under section 14 of that Act (hereinafter referred to as “the former Tribunal”) or had been heard or investigated by the Board or the former Tribunal but no order or decision had been rendered thereon, the Board or the former Tribunal shall continue to exist, notwithstanding the provisions of this Act, for the purpose of completing the hearing or investigation and making an order or rendering a decision, as the case may be.

For the purpose of completing a hearing or investigation before it or making an order or rendering a decision on a matter heard or investigated before the commencement of this Act, the Board or the former Tribunal shall complete the hearing or investigation in accordance with the authority vested in it immediately before the commencement of this Act and make such order, rule or directions as it could have made under the authority vested in it immediately before the commencement of this Act.

An order, rule or direction made or given by the Board or the former Tribunal pursuant to this section shall be entered as an order, rule or direction of the Association or the Tribunal of Appeal established under section 11 of this Act and have the same force or effect as if it had been made or given by the Association or the Tribunal of Appeal pursuant to the authority vested therein under this Act.

Notwithstanding the provisions of subsection (1) of section 3, a person who immediately before the date of commencement of this Act was manufacturing technically specified rubber shall be entitled to do the same without a licence —