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54 (11) This Act does not affect—
 * (a) any investigation commenced or pending under the repealed Act before the appointed day, and every such investigation may be continued and everything in relation thereto may be done in all respects after that day as if this Act had not been enacted;
 * (b) the continued operation or force of any order or decision of the Registrar of Businesses made under the repealed Act before the appointed day; and
 * (c) any right of appeal accrued before the appointed day in respect of any order or decision referred to in paragraph (b).

(12) Any subsidiary legislation made under the repealed Act and in force immediately before the appointed day is, so far as it is not inconsistent with the provisions of this Act, to continue in force as if made under this Act until it is revoked or repealed.

(13) For a period of 2 years after the appointed day, the Minister may, by regulations, prescribe such other transitional, incidental and consequential matters arising from the repeal of the repealed Act, as the Minister may consider necessary or expedient.

(14) Any written law or document referring to the repealed Act or any provision thereof is, as far as may be necessary for preserving its effect, to be construed as referring or as including a reference to this Act or the corresponding provision in this Act, as the case may be.

(15) In this section—
 * “appointed day” means the date of commencement of this Act;
 * “repealed Act” means the Business Registration Act (Cap. 32, 2004 Ed.) repealed by this Act.

Consequential and related amendments to other written laws

47. The provisions of the Acts specified in the first column of the Schedule are amended in the manner set out in the second column thereof.