Patents and Companies Registration
Agency
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PART V
GENERAL PROVISIONS
The Minister may, by statutory instrument, on the
recommendation of the Agency, make regulations for the better
carrying out of the provisions of this Act.
The Schedule applies in relation to the savings and
transitional provisions.
Regulations
Savings and
transitional
provisions
SCHEDULE
(Section 21)
SAVINGS AND TRANSITIONAL PROVISIONS
The Department constituted pursuant to section three Dissolution
hundred and sixty-six of the Companies Act, section two of the of
Registration of Registered Business Names Act, section three of Department
the Patents Act, section three of the Trade Marks Act and section Cap. 388
three of the Registered Designs Act respectively, shall stand Cap. 389
Cap. 400
dissolved on the appointed date.
Cap. 401
Cap. 402
(1) For the avoidance of doubt, a person who, before the
commencement of this Act, was an officer or employee of the
Department, shall continue to be an officer or employee of the
Agency, as the case may be, as if appointed or employed under
this Act.
The service of the persons referred to in subparagraph (1)
shall be treated as continuous service.
Nothing in this Act affects the rights and liabilities of any
person employed or appointed by the Department before the
appointed date.
3. (1) On or after the appointed date, there shall be transferred
to, vest in and subsist against the Agency by virtue of this Act and
without further assurance—
the affairs of the Department; and
subject to this Act, all property, rights and obligations which
immediately before the appointed date were the
property, rights and obligations of the Department.
(2) Except as provided in this Act, every deed, bond and
agreement, other than an agreement for personnel service, to which
Staff of
Department
Vesting of
assets and
liabilities