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104 Repeal and transitional provisions
(1) The **Unclaimed Moneys Act 1962** is **repealed**.
(2) Except as in this Act expressly or by necessary implication provided, all persons, things and circumstances appointed or created by or under the **Unclaimed Moneys Act 1962** immediately before the commencement of this section shall under and subject to this Act continue to have the same status, operation and effect as they respectively would have had if this section had not come into operation.
(3) Despite the repeal of the **Unclaimed Moneys Act 1962** by subsection (1), any proceeding, inquiry, claim or obligation that commenced or arose under a section of that Act that was not finally determined under that Act immediately before that repeal, may be continued and completed or otherwise dealt with under that Act as if the Act had not been repealed.
(4) On and from the commencement of this section, unless the context otherwise requires, in any Act (other than this Act or a provision amended by this Act) or in any instrument made under any Act or in any other document of any kind—
(a) a reference to the Registrar of Unclaimed Moneys must be read as a reference to the Registrar of Unclaimed Money;
(b) a reference to the Deputy Registrar of Unclaimed Moneys must be read as a reference to the Deputy Registrar of Unclaimed Money;
(c) a reference to the **Unclaimed Moneys Act 1962** must be read as a reference to the **Unclaimed Money Act 2008**;
(d) a reference to a register established by a business under section 11 of the **Unclaimed Moneys Act 1962** must be read as a reference to a business register established by a business under section 11 of this Act;
(e) a reference to a register kept by the Registrar of Unclaimed Moneys under section 12B of the **Unclaimed Moneys Act 1962** must be read as a reference to the unclaimed money register kept by the Registrar of Unclaimed Money under section 28 of this Act;
(f) a reference to a register kept by the Registrar under section 22(1) of the **Unclaimed Moneys Act 1962** must be read as a reference to the register of unclaimed superannuation benefits kept by the Registrar under section 93 of this Act.
S. 105 repealed by No. 44/2008 s. 117,
new s. 105 inserted by No. 13/2013 s. 51.