Dublin Improvement Act 1849

Actions not to abate.

VI. And be it enacted, That no Action, Suit, Prosecution, or other Proceeding whatever, commenced by or against the Commissioners respectively acting in the Execution of the said recited Acts or any of them previous to the Commencement of this Act, shall abate, cease, be discontinued, or prejudicially affected by this Act, but the same shall continue and take effect, both in favour of and against the Right Honourable the Lord Mayor, Aldermen, and Burgesses of Dublin, under this Act, in the same Manner in all respects as the same would have continued and taken effect in relation to the Commissioners respectively under the said recited Acts or any of them if this Act had not been passed, and that all Persons who before the passing of this Act have committed any Offence or incurred any Penalty or Forfeiture under the Provisions of the said recited Acts or any of them, so far as the same are hereby repealed, may be sued and prosecuted for such Offences, Penalties, and Forfeitures in such and the like Manner as They might have been sued and prosecuted Respectively if this Act had not been passed, the Right Honourable the Lord Mayor, Aldermen, and Burgesses of Dublin under this Act being in reference to the Matters aforesaid in all respects substituted in place of the Commissioners respectively under the said recited Acts.