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Telecommunications Act 2005
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Savings and Transitional Provisions-(1)
All
references in law or any document or act of authority to the
Department of Post Office or Ministry of Posts and
Telecommunications or successors shall be read as referring to
the Ministry unless the context otherwise requires.
(2) Insofar as they are not inconsistent with the provisions
of this Act, every regulation, order, document and act of
authority under or concerning the legislation set out in the
Schedule to this Act, so far as they are subsisting or in force at
the time of the repeal of such legislation, shall continue and
have effect under the corresponding provisions of this Act until
such time as they are altered, amended or cancelled, as the case
may require, under the provisions of this Act and, where there is
any question or concern as to what is a corresponding
provisions of this Act, the Minister by notice in writing may for
all purposes declare a provision of this Act to be a
corresponding provision.
(3) Despite the provisions of this Act, all applications and
other matters arising out of or under the provisions of the
legislative set out in the Schedule to this Act which are not
determined or otherwise dealt with under such provisions at the
date of the commencement of this Act shall be determined or
otherwise dealt with under the corresponding provisions of this
Act with such modifications, adaptations and alterations as the
Minister may determine in writing from time to time.
(4) Every advisory body existing at the time of the
commencement of this Act relating to any legislation set out in
the Schedule to this Act shall be deemed to be an advisory body
established by the Minister under the Ministry of
Communications and Information Technology Act 2005.
(5) Despite the provisions of this Act, where this Act does
not provide or provides insufficient or inadequate provision for
the transition from the legislation set out in the Schedule to this
Act, the Minister, by notice published in Samoan and English in
the Savali and one other newspaper circulating in Samoa, may
make such provisions as the Minister deems necessary in order
for all matters under or concerning the legislation set out in the
Schedule and this Act to be properly and effectively determined
or otherwise dealt with under the provisions of this Act.