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52 treated as the Registrar, a Deputy Registrar or an Assistant Registrar of Business Names, respectively, appointed under section 3(2) of this Act until his or her appointment is revoked, the term of his or her appointment expires, or he or she dies, retires or otherwise vacates his or her office before the expiry of his or her term of appointment.

(2) Any person who, immediately before the appointed day, is registered or deemed to be registered under the repealed Act is to be treated as registered under section 8 of this Act in respect of the business name for which he or she is registered or deemed to be registered under section 8 of the repealed Act and the registration of that person and the person’s business name expires on the date that the registration would have expired if this Act had not been enacted.

(3) The Registrar is to transfer to the register kept under this Act the names, addresses and other particulars of such persons which appear, immediately before the appointed day, in the register kept under the repealed Act.

(4) Any person (A) who, under regulations made under the repealed Act before the appointed day, was registered as a local manager appointed by a person carrying on business (B) is to be treated as having been appointed the authorised representative of B on the appointed day unless either A or B, within 30 days after the appointed day, lodges a notice with the Registrar that—
 * (a) A has not been appointed as the authorised representative of B; or
 * (b) A does not meet the criteria set out in section 11(2).

(5) Where an individual proprietor, a firm or a foreign company is treated as registered under subsection (2) and the individual proprietor, all the partners of the firm or all the officers of the foreign company resides or reside outside Singapore within the meaning of section 11(14) on the appointed day, the individual proprietor, firm or foreign company, as the case may be, must, unless subsection (4) applies, appoint at least one authorised representative in accordance with the provisions of section 11 within 30 days after the appointed day, failing which—