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| (1) Any fund, scheme, document, licence, provision or resolution, constituted, prepared, made, granted or approved under the port of Colombo Administration) Act, the Port (Cargo) Corporation Act, No. 13 of 1958, the Port Tally and Protective Services Corporation Act, No. 10 of 1967, or under the provisions of any other written law relating to such functions as are vested in the Ports Authority under this Act shall, except where otherwise expressly provided in this Act or any other written law, continue to have effect, and be deemed to have been constituted, prepared, made, granted or approved, as the case may be, under this Act. |
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| (2) Notwithstanding the repeal by this Act of any written law, every rule, regulation or order made under such repealed law shall, if it is in force immediately prior to the appointed date and is not inconsistent with the provisions of this Act, be deemed to be a rule, regulation or order made under this Act, and have effect accordingly ; and may be amended, replaced or rescinded by any rule, regulation or order, as the case may be, made under this Act. |
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| (3) All deeds, bonds, agreements, instruments and working arrangements subsisting on the day immediately preceding the appointed date, affecting any of the assets and liabilities vested in the Ports Authority or any employee of the Ports Authority under this Act, shall have full force and effect against or in favour of the Ports Authority, as the case may be, and be enforceable as fully and effectually as if, instead of the Port Commissioner, the Port (Cargo) Corporation, Port Tally and Protective Services Corporation, the Government or any person acting on behalf thereof, the Ports Authority had been named therein or had been a party thereto. |
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| (4) All legal proceedings instituted or which might have been instituted by or against the Port Commission, the Port (Cargo) Corporation or the Port Tally and Protective Services Corporation in respect of any functions or assets which, under and by virtue of this Act, are transferred to, and vested in, the Ports Authority may, subject to the provisions of this Act and to any other written law, be, if they are pending on the day immediately preceding the appointed date, continued or be, if they have not been instituted before the appointed date, instituted by or against the Ports Authority. |
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