Section 169

all persons, things and circumstances appointed or created by or under any of the laws repealed by subsection (1) or existing or continuing under any of such laws immediately before the commencement of this Act shall, under and subject to this Act and regulations made thereunder, continue to have the same status, operation and effect as they respectively would have had as if such laws had not been so repealed; and

in particular and without effecting the generality of paragraph (a) such repeal shall not affect licences, permits, appointments, orders, rules and regulations issued or made under or by virtue of the aforesaid laws and in force immediately before the commencement of this Act and such licences, permits, appointments, orders, rules and regulations shall remain in force and shall continue to

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remain in force as if every such licence, permit, appointment, order, rule or regulation were issued or made under and by virtue of this Act until replaced or revoked by any licence, permit, appointment, order, rule or regulation made under or by virtue of this Act.

*NOTE— see section 125 Customs (Amendment) Act 2019 [Act A1593] w.e.f. 1 January 2020 which provides the following provisions:

Saving and transitional