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30 1987

SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY ACT, 1987

PART IV

Transitional Provisions

Transfer of staff.

27. —(1) A person who, immediately before the commencement of this Act, was an officer or servant of the dissolved body shall on that commencement become and be an officer or servant of the Agency on terms and conditions not less favourable than those applicable to that person immediately before that commencement.

(2) A scheme approved of under section 28 of the National Board for Science and Technology Act, 1977 for the superannuation of officers and servants of the dissolved body shall be deemed to be a scheme approved of under section 35 of the Act of 1961 and may be amended accordingly.

(3) Section 35 (1) of the Act of 1961 is hereby amended by the insertion of “or death to or in respect of” before the words “the permanent staff”.

Transfer of property.

28. —(1) On the commencement of this Act all property, including choses-in-action, which immediately before that commencement was the property of the dissolved body shall stand vested in the Agency without any conveyance or assignment.

(2) Every chose-in-action transferred by subsection (1) of this section to the Agency may be sued on and recovered or enforced bythe Agency in its own name and it shall not be necessary for the Agency to give notice to the person bound by the chose-in-action of the transfer effected by that subsection.

Transfer of rights and liabilities and continuance of pending proceedings.

29. —(1) All rights and liabilities of the dissolved body shall on the commencement of this Act stand transferred to the Agency.

(2) Every right and liability transferred by subsection (1) of this section to the Agency may be sued on, recovered or enforced by or against the Agency in its own name and it shall not be necessary for the Agency to give notice to the person whose right or liability is transferred by this section of such transfer.

(3) All legal proceedings pending immediately before the commencement of this Act to which the dissolved body was a party shall be continued with the substitution for the dissolved body of the Agency.