36Repealing and re‑enacting a provision, effect of

##### 36. Repealing and re‑enacting a provision, effect of Where a written law repeals and re‑enacts, with or without modification, any enactment — (a) all districts or other local divisions or areas; and (b) all councils, corporations, boards, tribunals, commissions, trusts, or other bodies constituted, and all elections and appointments of members thereof made; and (c) all offices constituted and appointments of officers made; and (d) all subsidiary legislation, warrants, certificates, and documents made; and (e) all other acts, matters, and things whatsoever, which, at the commencement of the repealing law, are respectively in existence, or in force or operation, under or for the purposes of such provision, shall, in so far as is consistent with the repealing law, subsist and enure for the purposes of such law and shall continue as if the repealing law had been in operation when they respectively originated or were constituted, made or done and they had originated or been constituted, made or done under that law.