DEVOLUTION OF CERTAIN MINISTERIAL POWERS ACT

DEVOLUTION OF CERTAIN MINISTERIAL POWERS

CHAPTER 611

DEVOLUTION OF CERTAIN MINISTERIAL POWERS

ACT

AN ACT to amend various laws and subsidiary legislation pursuant

to the devolution of certain Ministerial powers to various entities.

1st October, 2019

ACT XXI of 2020, as amended by Act XXII of 2020.

The short title of this Act is the Devolution of Certain

Ministerial Powers Act.

The words and phrases referred to in the third column of

Schedule I, which words and phrases occur in the provisions

specified in the second column of the said Schedule, which

provisions are to be found in the enactments referred to in the first

column of the said Schedule, shall be amended in accordance with

the amendments referred to in the fourth column of the said Schedule.

The words and phrases referred to in the third column of

Schedule II, which words and phrases occur in the provisions

specified in the second column of the said Schedule, which

provisions are to be found in the enactments referred to in the first

column of the said Schedule, shall be amended in accordance with

the amendments referred to in the fourth column of the said Schedule.

(1)

Nothing in this Act shall affect the validity of

anything heretofore lawfully done, or any right, obligation or liability

heretofore acquired, accrued or incurred, under any of the enactment

mentioned in the Schedules to this Act.

(2) Any notifications, orders, schemes, rules, regulations,

appointments, delegations, directions or authorisations heretofore

lawfully made, given or issued and anything heretofore lawfully done

under any of the enactments mentioned in the Schedules hereto may

be revoked, varied or undone in like manner, to like extent and in like

circumstances as if they had been made, given, issued or done after

the coming into force of this Act by a competent authority to which

powers are being devolved under this Act, and under and in

accordance with the provisions the provisions referred to in the

relative enactments applicable to such a case.

(3) Any notifications, orders, schemes, rules, regulations,

appointments, delegations, directions or authorisations lawfully

made, given or issued and anything done prior to the coming into

force of the Devolution of Certain Ministerial Powers (Amendment)

Act, 2020 in accordance with the enactments which were in force

DEVOLUTION OF CERTAIN MINISTERIAL POWERS

prior to the 1 st October, 2019 mentioned in the Schedules to the

principal Act, shall be deemed to be valid and continue to be valid.