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50 :(b) the Public Entertainments and Meetings Act (Cap. 257) as in force immediately before the commencement of section 49(3) in relation to any lecture, talk, address, debate or discussion, is current immediately before the relevant commencement, this Act shall have effect as if the corresponding provision in this Act had been in force when the period began to run; and (without prejudice to the foregoing) any period of time so specified and current shall be deemed for the purposes of this Act—
 * (i) to run from the date or event from which it was running immediately before that day; and
 * (ii) 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, priorities, liabilities, reliefs, obligations, requirements, powers, duties or exemptions dependent on the beginning, duration or end of such a period as above mentioned shall be under this Act as they were or would have been under that former provision.

(6) Except as otherwise expressly provided, nothing in this section shall affect any saving provided by the Interpretation Act (Cap. 1).

(7) For a period of 2 years after the commencement of section 49(1), (2) or (3), as the case may be, the Minister may, by order published in the Gazette, prescribe such provisions of a savings or transitional nature consequent on the enactment of section 49(1), (2) or (3) as he may consider necessary or expedient.