Water and Sewerage Corporation Act 2012
30Vesting of assets, rights and liabilities in transferee
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30 Vesting of assets, rights and liabilities in transferee
(1) When any assets, rights or liabilities are transferred under section 28 , the following provisions have effect:
(a) the assets of the transferor that are the subject of the transfer order vest in the transferee by virtue of this section and without the need for any further conveyance, transfer, assignment or assurance;
(b) the rights or liabilities of the transferor that are the subject of the transfer order become by virtue of this section the rights or liabilities of the transferee;
(c) all legal or other proceedings, relating to the assets, rights or liabilities that are the subject of the transfer order, commenced before the transfer by or against the transferor or a predecessor of the transferor and pending immediately before the transfer are taken to be proceedings pending by or against the transferee;
(d) any legal or other proceedings, relating to the assets, rights or liabilities that are the subject of the transfer order, which could have been commenced immediately before the transfer by or against the transferor or a predecessor of the transferor may be commenced by or against the transferee;
(e) a judgment or order of a court or other tribunal obtained before the transfer by or against the transferor or a predecessor of the transferor, relating to the assets, rights or liabilities that are the subject of the transfer order, may be enforced by or against the transferee;
(f) any document relating to legal or other proceedings, relating to the assets, rights or liabilities that are the subject of the transfer order, that has been served on or by a transferor or a predecessor of the transferor before the transfer is taken, when appropriate, to have been served on or by the transferee;
(g) any act, matter or thing done or omitted to be done, in relation to the assets, rights or liabilities that are the subject of the transfer order, before the transfer by, to or in respect of the transferor or a predecessor of the transferor is (to the extent to which that act, matter or thing has any force or effect) taken to have been done or omitted to be done by, to or in respect of the transferee;
(h) a reference in any Act, in any instrument made under any Act, in any contract, agreement, arrangement or undertaking, or in any document of any kind, to –