Act 470 Social and Welfare Services Lotteries Board Dissolution Act 1991

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Board (Dissolution)

LAWS OF MALAYSIA
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Act 470

SOCIAL AND WELFARE


SERVICES LOTTERIES BOARD
(DISSOLUTION) ACT 1991
Incorporating all amendments up to 1 January 2006

PUBLISHED BY
THE COMMISSIONER OF LAW REVISION, MALAYSIA
UNDER THE AUTHORITY OF THE REVISION OF LAWS ACT 1968
IN COLLABORATION WITH
PERCETAKAN NASIONAL MALAYSIA BHD
2006

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SOCIAL AND WELFARE SERVICES LOTTERIES


BOARD (DISSOLUTION) ACT 1991

Date of Royal Assent ... ... ... … … 2 September 1991

Date of publication in the Gazette … … 12 September 1991

PREVIOUS REPRINT

First Reprint ... ... ... ... ... 2001

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LAWS OF MALAYSIA

Act 470

SOCIAL AND WELFARE SERVICES LOTTERIES


BOARD (DISSOLUTION) ACT 1991

ARRANGEMENT OF SECTIONS

Section

1. Short title
2. Interpretation
3. Repeal and dissolution
4. Transfer of powers, rights, etc.
5. Transfer of property
6. Transfer of fund
7. Existing contracts
8. Continuance of criminal and civil proceedings
9. Continuance of laws, etc.
10. Prevention of difficulties or anomalies

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Board (Dissolution)
LAWS OF MALAYSIA

Act 470

SOCIAL AND WELFARE SERVICES LOTTERIES


BOARD (DISSOLUTION) ACT 1991

An Act to repeal the Social and Welfare Services Lotteries Board


Act 1950-1962, to dissolve the Social and Welfare Services Lotteries
Board established under the Act, to transfer all its properties to
the Government and to provide for other matters connected therewith.

[1 October 1992, P.U. (B) 494/1992]

BE IT ENACTED by the Seri Paduka Baginda Yang di-Pertuan


Agong with the advice and consent of the Dewan Negara and
Dewan Rakyat in Parliament assembled, and by the authority of
the same, as follows:

Short title

1. This Act may be cited as the Social and Welfare Services


Lotteries Board (Dissolution) Act 1991.

Interpretation

2. In this Act, unless the context otherwise requires—

“appointed date” means the date appointed by the Minister under


section 1;

“Board” means the Social and Welfare Services Lotteries Board


established under the Social and Welfare Services Lotteries Board
Act 1950-1962 [Act 252]; Adam Haida & Co
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“Federal Lands Commissioner” means the Federal Lands
Commissioner appointed under the Federal Lands Commissioner
Act 1957 [Act 349];

“Minister” means the Minister for the time being charged with
the responsibility for social welfare.

Repeal and dissolution

3. The Social and Welfare Services Lotteries Board Act 1950-


1962 is repealed and the Board established thereunder is dissolved.

Transfer of powers, rights, etc.

4. All powers, rights, privileges, duties, liabilities and obligations


which immediately before the appointed date were those of the
Board shall, as from that date, devolve on the Government.

Transfer of property

5. (1) All lands which immediately before the appointed


date were vested in the Board shall, on the appointed date, vest
in the Federal Lands Commissioner for the purposes of the
Government.

(2) All property and assets other than land which immediately
before the appointed date were vested in the Board or in any
person on its behalf shall, on that date, vest in the Government.

Transfer of fund

6. All moneys standing in, or due to be paid to, the Board shall,
on the appointed date, be transferred to, and be vested with, the
Government.

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Existing contracts

7. All deeds, bonds, agreements, instruments and working


arrangements subsisting immediately before the appointed date
and affecting any of the property transferred under section 5 shall
be of full force and effect against or in favour of the Government
and enforceable as fully and effectually as if, instead of the Board
or any person acting on its behalf, the Government had been
named therein or had been a party thereto.

Continuance of criminal and civil proceedings

8. (1) The repeal of the Social and Welfare Services


Lotteries Board Act 1950-1962 shall not affect any person’s liability
to be prosecuted or punished for offences committed under the
repealed Act before the appointed date, or any proceedings
brought or sentence imposed before that date in respect of such
offence.

(2) Any proceedings (whether civil or criminal), or cause of


action pending or existing immediately before the appointed date
by or against the Board or any person acting on its behalf may be
continued or instituted by or against the Government as it might
have been by or against the Board or such person as if this Act
had not been passed.

(3) Any appeal brought, or any leave to appeal applied for, on


or after the appointed date, against a decision given before the
appointed date in any legal proceedings to which the Board was
a party thereto may be brought by or against the Government as
it might have been by or against the Board as if this Act had not
been passed.

Continuance of laws, etc.

9. Subject to the provisions of this Act, all written laws, orders,


rules and regulations affecting or for the protection of the Board
and in force immediately before the Haida
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amended or revoked by the appropriate authority having power so
to do, continue in force and be construed as if this Act had not
been passed:

Provided that any references therein to the Board, unless the


context otherwise requires, shall be construed as references to the
Government and expressions importing such a reference shall be
construed accordingly.

Prevention of difficulties or anomalies

10. (1) If any difficulty or anomaly arises in connection with the


implementation of the provisions of this Act, the Minister may by
order make such modifications therein as may appear to him necessary
for removing or preventing such difficulty or anomaly:

Provided that the Minister shall not exercise the powers conferred
by this section after the expiration of three years from the appointed
date.

(2) In this section “modifications” includes amendments, additions,


deletions, substitutions, adaptations, variations, alterations and non-
application of any provision of this Act.

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BOARD (DISSOLUTION) ACT 1991

LIST OF AMENDMENTS

Amending law Short title In force from

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BOARD (DISSOLUTION) ACT 1991

LIST OF SECTIONS AMENDED

Section Amending authority In force from

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