31. On the appointed date-
| (a) all officers and servants in the service of the Council shall be deemed to be officers and servants in the service of the Authority, and shall hold their offices with as nearly as may be the same status and on the terms, including terms relating to salary or wages, the termination of employment, allowances, or other benefits as they had or enjoyed in the service of the Council; |
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| (b) all decisions made by the Council shall be deemed to be decisions made by the Authority; |
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| (c) all debts, obligations and liabilities incurred and all contracts, deeds, bonds, agreements and other instruments executed or entered into and all matters and things engaged to be done by, with or for the Council, shall be deemed to have been incurred, executed, entered into or engaged to be done by, with or for the Authority; |
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| (d) all suits, prosecutions, appeals or other legal proceedings, civil and criminal, instituted or which might have been instituted, by or against the Council, subject to the provisions of this Act and of any other written law shall be continued or instituted by or against the Authority; |
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| (e) all decrees or orders made by a competent court in favour of, or against, the Council, shall be deemed to have been made in favour of, or against, the Authority ; |
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| (f) all property, movable or immovable, which has been vested in, or legally purchased or acquired by, or leased to, or placed at the disposal of, or in any other manner transferred to the Council or is in its possession or control shall be held by or in trust; for the Authority, subject to the trusts,., charges, liabilities, reservations, servitudes or other encumbrances and on the terms and conditions pertaining, attaching or applicable thereto ; |
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| (g) all rules made by the Council shall be deemed to be rules made by the Authority; |
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| (h) the Fund of the Council established under section 22 of the National Science Council of Sri Lanka Law, No, 36 of 1975, shall be deemed to be the Fund of the Authority. |
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