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Rh :(a) to continue to run from the date or event from which it was running immediately before that date of commencement; and
 * (b) to expire (subject to any provision of this Act for its extension) whenever it would have expired if this Act had not been enacted,

and any rights, liabilities, reliefs, obligations, requirements, powers, duties or exemptions that, under the former provision, are dependent on the beginning, duration or end of such a period must continue as if this Act had not been enacted.

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

(11) In subsections (9) and (10), “former provision” means—
 * (a) a provision of the Private Lotteries Act 2011 repealed or amended by section 49; or
 * (b) a provision of the Betting and Sweepstake Duties Act 1950 repealed by section 51.

(12) For a period of 2 years after the date of commencement of any provision of this Act, the Minister may, by regulations, prescribe such additional provisions of a saving or transitional nature consequent on the enactment of that provision as the Minister may consider necessary or expedient.

(13) All regulations made under this section must be presented to Parliament as soon as possible after publication in the Gazette.

(14) To avoid doubt, nothing in or done under this section prejudices section 16 of the Interpretation Act 1965.