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Rh Saving and transitional provisions

60.—(1) Subject to the adaptations provided in the Third Schedule, this Act applies to and in relation to—
 * (a) the provision of any licensable healthcare service in any premises or conveyance as a private hospital, medical clinic, clinical laboratory or healthcare establishment authorised by a licence under the repealed Act that—
 * (i) is issued before the appointed day for that licensable healthcare service; and
 * (ii) is in force immediately before that appointed day; and
 * (b) every application under the repealed Act for the grant of a licence under the repealed Act to use any premises or conveyance as a private hospital, medical clinic, clinical laboratory or healthcare establishment which is pending on the day immediately before the appointed day for private hospitals, medical clinics, clinical laboratories or healthcare establishments, as the case may be.

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

(3) Nothing in this section or the Third Schedule affects section 16 of the Interpretation Act (Cap. 1).