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Part VII · Repeals and Transitional Provisions

145. Transitional provisions

Official English translation. Where it differs from the Sinhala or Tamil text, the Act itself says which text prevails.

Notwithstanding the repeal of Cosmetics, Devices and Drugs Act, No. 27 of 1980 (hereinafter referred to as

“the repealed Act”), -

(a)

all contracts and agreements entered into under the repealed Act and subsisting on the day immediately preceding the appointed date shall, with effect from the appointed date, be contracts and agreements entered into under this Act with or on behalf of the

Authority and may be enforced accordingly;

(b)

all suits, prosecutions, appeals or other legal proceedings which have been instituted in any court or tribunal by or against the Cosmetics, Devices and Drugs Authority and pending before such court or tribunal on the day immediately preceding the appointed date shall with effect from the appointed date be deemed to have been instituted by or against the Authority and may be continued accordingly;

(c)

all decrees, orders and judgments entered or made by a competent court or tribunal in favor of or against the Cosmetics, Devices and Drugs Authority and remaining unsatisfied on the day preceding the appointed date shall with effect from the appointed date be deemed to have been made in favor of or against the Authority, and may be enforced accordingly;

(d)

every regulation or rule made under the repealed

Act , and in force on the day immediately preceding the appointed date and not inconsistent with the provisions of this Act, shall with effect from the appointed date be deemed to have been made under this Act and may accordingly be amended or rescinded by regulations or rules made under this

Act;

(e)

every licence or registration issued by the

Cosmetics, Devices and Drugs Authority and in force immediately prior to the date of operation of this Act shall with effect from the appointed date be deemed to be a licence or registration granted by the Authority under the provisions of this Act;

(f)

every application for a licence or registration of a medicine, medical device or borderline product made to the Cosmetics, Devices and Drugs

Authority under the provisions of the repealed Act shall with effect from the appointed date be deemed to be an application made to the Authority established under this Act and shall be dealt with accordingly;

(g)

all movable and immovable property vested in the

Cosmetics, Devices and Drugs Authority on the day immediately preceding the appointed date, shall, with effect from the appointed date, be vested with the Authority;

(h)

all sums of money lying to the credit of the fund of the Cosmetics, Devices and Drugs Authority on the day immediately preceding the appointed date, shall stand transferred, with effect from the appointed date, to the Fund established under section 18 of this Act;

(i)

all declarations, notifications, licences and orders made or issued under the repealed Act and subsisting on the day immediately preceding the appointed date, shall in so far as they are not inconsistent with the provisions of this Act, be deemed with effect from the appointed date, to be declarations, notifications, licences and orders made or issued under the provisions of this Act and shall be construed accordingly;

(j)

every reference to the Cosmetics, Devices and Drugs

Authority in any written law, notice, notification, instrument, contract, communication or other document shall with effect from the appointed date be read and construed as a reference to the Authority established under this Act; and

(k)

every reference to the National Druge Quality

Assurance Laboratory of the Cosmetics, Devices

Drugs Authority in any written law, notice, notification, contract, communication or other document shall with effect from the appointed date be read and construed as a reference to the NMQAL of the Authority established under this Act.

Part VIII

Interpretation

Read on from Part VIII