Section 20: Repeals, saving, transfer of assets, liabilities, staff, etc.

(1) The Medical and Dental Practitioners Act 1963 (in this section referred to as "the repealed enactment") is hereby repealed and the body established thereunder is hereby dissolved.
(2) Notwithstanding subsection (1) of this section-
(a) any person whose name was immediately before the coming to force of this Act included in the registers maintained under the repealed enactment shall, without further application or payment of any other fee, be deemed to be registered under the appropriate provision of this Act;
(b) any register kept in pursuance of the repealed enactment shall be deemed to be part of the register to be kept in pursuance of this Act;
(c) any document referring to a provision of the repealed enactment shall be construed as a reference to the corresponding provision of this Act; and
(d) where any offence, being an offence for the continuance of which a penalty was provided, has been committed under the repealed enactment, proceedings may be taken under this Act in respect of the continuance of the offence after the commencement of this Act, in the same manner as if the offence had been committed under the corresponding provisions of this Act.
(3) All assets, funds, resources and other movable or immovable property which immediately before the commencement of this Act were vested in the body established by the repealed enactment shall by virtue of this Act and without any further assurances, be vested in the Council.
(4) As from the commencement of this Act-
(a) the rights, interests, obligations and liabilities of the body referred to in subsection (3) of this section existing immediately before the commencement of this Act under any contract or instruction or at law or in equity are hereby assigned to and vested in the council without further assurance; and
(b) any such contract or instrument shall be of the same force and effect against or in favour of the council and shall be enforceable as fully and effectively as if instead of the body mentioned in the repealed enactments, the council has been named therein or had been a party thereto.
(5) Any proceeding or cause of action pending or existing immediately before the commencement of this Act by or against the body mentioned in the repealed enactment in respect of any rights, interest, obligation or liability of the body aforesaid may be continued or, as the case may be, commenced and any determination of a court of law, Tribunal or other authority or person may be enforced by or against the Council to the same extent that any such proceeding, cause of action or determination could have been continued, commenced or enforced by or against the body aforesaid if this Act had not been made.
(6) Notwithstanding the repeal of the enactment referred to in this section, if the Council thinks it expedient that any vacancy in the Council should be filled by a person holding office at the commencement of this Act in the body dissolved by this section it may employ such person by way of transfer to the Council and the previous service in the dissolved body by such person shall count as service for the purposes of any person subsequently payable by the Council.