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Transfer of debts and liabilities to committees of agriculture.
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42.—(1) Upon the commencement of this Act every debt and other liability (including unliquidated liabilities arising from torts or breaches of contract) which immediately before the commencement of this Act is owing and unpaid and has been incurred and is undischarged by the committee appointed under the Act of 1899 by the council of a county or by such council in relation to or for the purposes of functions, powers and duties performed by such council through such committee shall, on the commencement of this Act, save as is hereinafter otherwise provided, become and be the debt or liability of the committee of agriculture for such county and shall be paid or discharged by and may be recovered or enforced against such committee accordingly.
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(2) Notwithstanding anything contained in the foregoing sub-section, every pension, superannuation allowance, or gratuity which immediately before the commencement of this Act, is or has become payable by the council of a county to a person on account of his having been an officer of a committee appointed under the Act of 1899 by such council or of such council in relation to or for the purposes of functions, powers and duties performed by such council through such committee shall on and after the commencement of this Act be raised and paid by such council and in the same manner as the same would have been required to be raised and paid as if this Act had not been passed and come into operation.
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