Singapore legislation

Clause 76

Repeal and transitional and savings provisions

(1)

The Water Pollution Control and Drainage Act (Cap. 348) (referred to in this section as the repealed Act) is repealed.

(2)

Any decision made by the Director of Water Pollution Control and Drainage under the repealed Act to control, supervise, maintain and repair any private sewerage system shall be deemed to be a decision made by the Director under section 8 as if that section had been in force at the time when the Director of Water Pollution Control and Drainage made the decision.

(3)

Any permission, consent or approval granted by the Director of Water Pollution Control and Drainage under the repealed Act shall, so far as it is not inconsistent with the provisions of this Act and except as otherwise expressly provided in this Act, continue and be deemed to have been granted by the Director under the corresponding provision of this Act.

(4)

Any notice, order, direction or declaration issued or made by the Director of Water Pollution Control and Drainage or the Minister under the repealed Act before the appointed day shall be deemed to be a notice, order, direction or declaration issued or made by the Director or the Minister, as the case may be, under the corresponding provision of this Act as if it had been in force when the notice, order, direction or declaration was made.

(5)

Where a period of time specified in any provision of the repealed Act is current on the appointed day, this Act shall have effect as if the corresponding provision in this Act had been in force when that period began to run.

(6)

The powers conferred on the Director by this Act may be exercised in respect of —

(a)

any sewerage system or sanitary facilities constructed or altered in contravention of the repealed Act;

(b)

any building erected over, across or adjacent to any sewer in contravention of the repealed Act; and

(c)

any storm water drainage system constructed or altered in contravention of the repealed Act.

(7)

Any investigation, legal proceeding or remedy in respect of any right, privilege, obligation, liability, penalty, forfeiture or punishment acquired, accrued, or incurred under the repealed Act may be instituted, continued or enforced by the Director as if a reference in the repealed Act to the Director of Water Pollution Control and Drainage is a reference to the Director.

(8)

Where the Director has before the appointed day applied for a mandatory order under section 24 of the repealed Act or made a complaint under section 33 of that Act, the provisions of that Act shall continue to apply to that application and any mandatory order made as a result of that application or complaint as if this Act had not been enacted.

(9)

In any written law or document, a reference to the repealed Act shall, in so far as it is necessary for preserving its effect, be construed as a reference to this Act and a reference to the Director of Water Pollution Control and Drainage shall be construed as a reference to the Director.

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