Section 64: Savings and transitional provisions

(1) Notwithstanding anything to the contrary in this Act, the employees and appointees of the Accident Investigation Bureau (in this section referred to as “AIB”) existing immediately before the commencement of this Act is deemed to have been transferred to the Bureau established under this Act on terms and conditions not less favourable than those obtainable immediately before the commencement of this Act and service in the AIB is deemed to be service in the Bureau, for the purposes of pension.
(2) There shall be vested in the Bureau all assets, funds, resources, movable and immovable property which immediately before the commencement of this Act were vested in the AIB.
(3) All rights, interests, obligations and liabilities of the AIB under any contract, instrument, in law or in equity, shall by virtue of this Act be assigned and vested in the Bureau established under this Act.
(4) Any proceeding or cause of action pending or existing immediately before the commencement of this Act by or against the AIB existing immediately before the commencement of this Act in respect of any right, interest, obligation or liability of the AIB may be continued, or as the case may require, be commenced and the determination of a court of law, tribunal or other authority or person may be enforced by or against the Bureau to the same extent that such cause of action or determination might have been continued, or enforced by or against the AIB as if this Act had not been made.
(5) Any regulation, order, by-law or notice made or issued or deemed to be made or issued by, or for the purpose of, the AIB existing immediately before the commencement of this Act shall be deemed to have been made or issued by or for the purpose of the Bureau and shall continue in force until revoked or amended, subject to such modifications as may be applicable to the Bureau established in this Act.