(10) This Act shall not affect—
- (a) any investigation or inquiry commenced or pending under Part V of the repealed Act before the appointed day, and every such investigation or inquiry may be continued and everything in relation thereto may be done in all respects after that day as if this Act had not been enacted;
- (b) the continued operation or force of any order, direction or decision of the Chief Inspector or the Minister made under the repealed Act before the appointed day; and
- (c) any right of appeal accrued before the appointed day in respect of any such order, direction or decision.
(11) Any factory which, immediately before the appointed day, is registered under the repealed Act shall be deemed to be registered under the provisions of this Act.
(12) Any approval, notice, direction, order, requirement or exemption that—
- (a) is given, issued or made under the repealed Act; and
- (b) is in force immediately before the appointed day,
shall have effect for the purposes of any corresponding provision of this Act, unless this Act otherwise provides.
(13) Where any period of time specified in any provision in the repealed Act is current immediately before the appointed day, this Act shall have effect as if the corresponding provision in this Act had been in force when the period began to run; and (without prejudice to the foregoing) any period of time so specified and current shall be deemed for the purposes of this Act—
- (a) to run from the date or event from which it was running immediately before that day; and
- (b) to expire (subject to any provision of this Act for its extension) whenever it would have expired if this Act had not been enacted,
and any rights, priorities, liabilities, reliefs, obligations, requirements, powers, duties or exemptions dependent on the beginning, duration or end of such a period as above mentioned shall be under this Act as they were or would have been under that provision in the repealed Act.
