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PROPERTY LAW ACT 1958 - SECT 2

Repeals and savings

    (1)     The Acts mentioned in the First Schedule to the extent thereby expressed to be repealed are hereby repealed accordingly.

    (2)     Except as in this Act expressly or by necessary implication provided—

        (a)     all persons things and circumstances appointed or created by or under the repealed Acts or existing or continuing under any of such Acts immediately before the commencement of this Act shall under and subject to this Act continue to have the same status operation and effect as they respectively would have had if such Acts had not been so repealed;

        (b)     in particular and without affecting the generality of the foregoing paragraph such repeal shall not disturb the continuity of status operation or effect of any dealing transaction title rule regulation order instrument deposit registration delegation acknowledgment undertaking release covenant proceeding direction trust licence application appointment declaration consent certificate contract agreement notice liability privilege power or right made effected issued granted given presented passed fixed incurred accrued or acquired or existing or continuing by or under any of such Acts before the commencement of this Act.

    (3)     Where in any provision of this Act the expression "after the commencement of this Act" (otherwise than in the expression " before or after the commencement of this Act") occurs and the same expression occurs in the corresponding provision of the Property Law Act 1928 the said expression shall (where the circumstances are applicable) be construed so as to include a reference to the commencement of the Property Law Act 1928 [1] .

S. 3 amended by No. 16/1986 s. 19(a), substituted by No. 18/2005 s. 18(Sch. 1 item 87).



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