Section 23: Savings and transfer of liabilities, staff, etc.

(1) Accordingly, the statutory functions, rights, interests, obligations and liabilities of the Directorate for Social Mobilisation established under the Directorate for Social Mobilisation Act, the Public Enlightenment and National Orientation Movement Divisions of the Federal Ministry of Information and National Orientation (in the Act referred to as the Directorate and Divisions) existing before the commencement of this Act under any contract or instrument shall, by virtue of this Act, be deemed to have been assigned to and vested in the Agency established by this Act.
(2) Any such contract or instrument as is mentioned in subsection (1) of this section, shall be of the same force and effect against or in favour of the Agency established by this Act and shall be enforceable as fully and effectively as if instead of the Directorate and Divisions existing before the commencement of this Act, the Agency established by this Act has been named therein or had been a party thereto.
(3) The Agency established by this Act shall be subject to all the obligations and liabilities to which the Directorate and Divisions existing before the commencement of this Act were subject immediately before the commencement of this Act and all other persons shall have the same rights, powers and remedies against the Agency established by this Act as they had against the Directorate and Division existing before the commencement of this Act.
(4) Any proceeding or cause of action pending or existing immediately before the commencement of this Act by or against the Directorate and Divisions existing before the commencement of this Act in respect of any right, interest, obligation or liability of the Directorate and Divisions existing before the commencement of this Act 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 Agency established by this Act to the same extent that such proceeding or cause of action or determination might have been continued, commenced or enforced by or against the Directorate and Divisions existing before the commencement of this Act.
(5) All assets, funds, resources and other movable or immovable property which immediately before the commencement of this Act were vested in the Directorate and Divisions existing before the commencement of this Act shall, by virtue of this Act and without further assurance, be vested in the Agency established by this Act.
(6) Any person who immediately before the coming into effect of this Act is the holder of any office in the Directorate and Divisions existing before commencement of this Act shall, on the commencement of this Act, continue in office and be deemed to have been appointed to his office by the Agency established by this Act unless the authority by which the person was appointed terminates the appointment.
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The Minister may, if he thinks fit, within twelve months after the commencement of this Act by order published in the Federal Gazette make additional transitional or savings provisions for better carrying out of the objectives of this section.