23. Repeal and saving
Feedback & supportThe Ordinance and Enactments set out in the Sixth Schedule are hereby repealed:
Provided that such repeal shall not affect any bill of sale executed before the commencement of this Act, and, as regards any bill of sale so executed, the Ordinance or Enactment applicable to such bill of sale shall be deemed to continue in force.
bill of sale
“bill of sale” includes bills of sale, assignments, transfers, declarations of trust without transfer, inventories of goods with receipt thereto attached, or receipts for purchase money of goods, and other assurances of personal chattels, and also powers of attorney, authorities or licences to take possession of personal chattels as security for any debt, and also any agreement, whether *NOTE—All references to “West Malaysia” shall be construed as reference to “Peninsular Malaysia”– see the Interpretation (Amendment) Act 1997, subsection 5(2). intended or not to be followed by the execution of any other instrument, by which a right in equity to any personal chattels or to any charge or security thereon is conferred, but does not include the following documents— (a) assignments for the benefit of the creditors of the person making or giving the same; (b) ante-nuptial marriage settlements; (c) transfers or assignments of any ship or vessel or share thereof; (d) transfers of goods in the ordinary course of business of any trade or calling; (e) bills of sale of goods in foreign ports or at sea; (f) bills of lading, warehouse-keepers’ certificates, warrants or orders for the delivery of goods, or any other documents used in the ordinary course of business as proof of the possession or control of goods or authorizing or purporting to authorize, either by endorsement or by delivery, the possessor of such documents to transfer or receive goods thereby represented;
Any renewal after the commencement of this Act of the registration of a bill of sale executed before such commencement, and registered under any Ordinance or Enactment repealed by this
Act, shall be made under this Act in the same manner as the renewal of a registration made under this Act.
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