Commissioner for Corporate Affairs Act 1980
7Savings and transitional provisions
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7 Savings and transitional provisions
(1) In this section, Principal Act means the Companies Act 1962 .
(2) A person holding office as the Registrar of Companies or as a Deputy Registrar or an Assistant Registrar of Companies under section 7 of the Principal Act , as in force immediately before the commencement of this section, shall, on that commencement, be deemed to have been appointed under section 4 to hold office as the Commissioner for Corporate Affairs or, as the case may be, appointed under section 5 as a Deputy Commissioner or an Assistant Commissioner for Corporate Affairs on the same terms and conditions as those under which he was appointed and employed immediately before that commencement.
(3) A reference to the Registrar of Companies or to a Deputy Registrar of Companies or an Assistant Registrar of Companies in any Act, other than the Principal Act , or in any instrument or other document, that is in force or that has effect at the commencement of this section, shall, on and after the commencement, be deemed to be a reference to the Commissioner for Corporate Affairs or, as the case may be, to a Deputy Commissioner or an Assistant Commissioner for Corporate Affairs.
(4) All acts, matters, and things done or omitted to be done by, or done or suffered in relation to, the Registrar of Companies before the commencement of this section, shall, on and after that commencement, have the same force and effect as if they had been done or omitted to be done by, or done or suffered in relation to, the Commissioner.
(5) Where, immediately before the commencement of this section, property was vested in the Registrar of Companies by reason of the operation of section 310 of the Companies Act 1962 , the property, on that commencement, vests by force of this section in the Commissioner.
(6) Any legal or other proceedings taken by or against the Registrar of Companies before the commencement of this section and pending at that commencement may be continued by or against the Commissioner.
(7) A reference to the Companies Office in any Act, or in any instrument or other document that is in force or that has effect at the commencement of this section, shall, on and after that commencement, be read as a reference to the Corporate Affairs Office.