Section 50: Repeals, savings and transfer of assets and liabilities, etc.

(1) The National Parks Act (in this section referred to as "the repealed Act") is hereby repealed but the Board established under the repealed Act shall, subject to this Act, perform the functions of the Board established under this Act until the Board established under this Act is duly constituted, and shall then stand dissolved.
(2) Accordingly and subject to the provisions of this Act, all property, rights, liabilities and obligations which, immediately before the commencement of this Act were property, rights, liabilities and obligations of any of the bodies comprised in-
(a) the Chad Basin National Park;
(b) the Cross River National Park;
(c) the Gashaka-Gumti National Park;
(d) the Kainji Lake National Park;
(e) the Old Oyo National Park;
(f) the Yankari National Park;
(g) Kamuku National Park; and
(h) Okomu National Park, (in this Act referred to as "the respective bodies"), established by or under the repealed Act, shall, as from the commencement of this Act, without further assurance, vest or be deemed to have vested in the Service.
(3) For the avoidance of doubt, the National Parks listed in subsection (2) of this section shall continue to exist as National Parks within their respective existing boundaries until new orders are made under this Act, and shall be subject to the provisions of this Act.
(4) Subject to this Act, the Management Committee appointed under the repealed Act shall continue in office until the Management Committee established under this Act is duly constituted, and shall then stand dissolved.
(5) The Director of the National Parks Board and a General Manager of a National Park appointed under the repealed Act shall, unless the relevant authority otherwise determines in writing, continue in office until a Conservator-General or a Director, as the case may be, is appointed under this Act.
(6) There shall by virtue of this Act be vested in the Service all assets, funds, resources, and other movable or immovable property which immediately before this Act were vested in the Board established under the repealed Act.
(7) The rights, interests, obligations and liabilities of the Board established under the repealed Act existing before this Act under any contract or instrument, or in law or in equity apart from any contract or instrument, shall by virtue of this Act be assigned to and vested in the Service.
(8) A contract or an instrument as is mentioned in subsection (7) of this section shall be of the same force and effect against or in favour of the Service and shall be enforceable as fully and effectively as if the Service had been named in the contract or instrument or had been a party to it.
(9) The Service shall be subject to all obligations and liabilities to which the Board established under the repealed Act was subject before the commencement of this Act and all other persons shall have the same rights, powers and remedies against the Service as they had against the Board established under the repealed Act immediately before the commencement of this Act.
(10) A proceeding or cause of action pending or existing immediately before the commencement of this Act by or against the Board established under the repealed Act in respect of any right, interest, obligation or liability of the Board established under the repealed 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 Service to the same extent that such proceeding, cause of action or determination might have been continued, commenced or enforced by or against the Board established under the repealed Act if this Act has not been made.
(11) All assets, funds, resources and other movable or immovable property which immediately before the commencement of this Act were vested in the Board established under the repealed Act shall by virtue of this Act and without further assurance be vested in the Service.
(12) Notwithstanding the repeal of the enactment referred to in this section, if the Service thinks it expedient that any vacancy in the Service shall be filled by a person holding office at the commencement of this Act in the Board established under the repealed Act, it may employ the person by way of transfer to the Service and the previous service in the Board established under the repealed Act by that person shall count as service for the purpose of any pension subsequently payable by the Service.
(13) The Minister, if he thinks fit, may, within the twelve months after the commencement of this Act, by order published in the Gazette, make additional transitional or savings provisions for the better carrying out of the objectives of this section.