On 20/06/2013,
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incorporating all amendments published on or before 20/06/2013.
The closest version currently available is that of 25/08/1989.
FOURTH SCHEDULE
Transitional and Savings Provisions
1. Every person who, immediately before the appointed day, held office as a member of the former Authority shall, subject to the provisions of this Act, continue to be a member of the Authority as if the person had been appointed under this Act on the same terms and conditions for a term expiring on the day on which the appointment under the repealed Act would expire.
2. The first chief executive of the Authority shall be the person who, immediately before the appointed day, is appointed to perform the duties of the General Manager of the former Authority and the person shall hold office on the same terms and conditions for a term expiring on the day on which his appointment under the repealed Act would expire.
3.—(1) Every committee appointed by the former Authority under section 25(1) of the repealed Act shall continue as if appointed by the Authority under section 14(1) of this Act; and every person who, immediately before the appointed day, was a member of such committee shall continue as a member of the committee on the same terms and conditions for a term expiring on the day on which his appointment under the repealed Act would expire.
(2) Any delegation made by the former Authority under section 25(2) or (3) of the repealed Act shall be deemed to be a delegation by the Authority made under section 14(2) or (3) of this Act, respectively.
4. Every proposal, plan and project submitted by the former Authority before the appointed day and which have neither been approved nor rejected by the Minister under section 24 of the repealed Act shall be deemed to have been submitted by the Authority under section 13 of this Act.
5. Every private company formed by the former Authority pursuant to section 20 of the repealed Act and existing immediately before the appointed day shall be deemed to have been formed under the provisions of this Act.
6.—(1) All standing orders made under section 26 of the repealed Act by the former Authority and in force immediately before the appointed day shall be deemed to have been made under section 15 of this Act by the Authority and may be amended, revoked or replaced by standing orders made under this Act.
(2) Every authorisation and direction given or made by the Minister under the repealed Act with regard to the power, or exercise of the functions, of the former Authority and in force immediately before the appointed day shall be deemed to have been given or made by the Minister under the corresponding provisions of this Act.
7.—(1) Notwithstanding the provisions of this Act, the former Authority shall, for the purposes of preparing and furnishing to the Minister a report of its functions under section 46 of the repealed Act (referred to in this paragraph as the annual report), continue in existence until it has furnished that report.
(2) The former Authority shall, as soon as practicable after the appointed day, prepare and furnish to the Minister an annual report for the period that commenced on 1st April 1989 and ending immediately before the appointed day.
(3) The Minister shall cause a copy of the annual report to be presented to Parliament as soon as practicable after receipt of the annual report.
(4) The Authority shall provide the former Authority with such clerical and other assistance as is reasonably required for the preparation of the annual report.
8.—(1) Any right of appeal subsisting immediately before the appointed day by virtue of section 51 of the repealed Act shall from that day be treated as subsisting by virtue of section 11 of the Planning Act (Cap. 232).
(2) Any such appeal pending before the appointed day under the repealed Act may be prosecuted and disposed of in accordance with section 11 of the Planning Act (Cap. 232).
9. All information collected by the Research and Statistics Unit before the appointed day and transferred to the Authority under section 31 shall be subject to the same safeguards as respect disclosure as are provided by the Statistics Act as if the information had been collected by the Authority under that Act (Cap. 317).
10.—(1) Any scheme, contract, document, licence, consent or resolution prepared, made, granted, approved or issued by or on behalf of the former Authority under any provision of the repealed Act, and any scheme, contract, document or licence made by or on behalf of the Government in respect of the Planning Department or the Research and Statistics Unit, shall, except as otherwise expressly provided in this Act or any other written law, continue and be deemed to have been prepared, made, granted or approved by the Authority.
(2) Where anything has been commenced by or on behalf of the former Authority, the Planning Department or the Research and Statistics Unit before the appointed day, such thing may be carried on and completed by or under the authority of the Authority.
(3) In any written law and in any document, unless the context otherwise requires, any reference to the former Authority, shall be construed as a reference to the Authority.