Nurses Act, 1985
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Dissolution of former Board. |
7.—(1) The former Board shall, on the establishment day, be dissolved by virtue of this section. | |
(2) All property, whether real or personal (including choses-in-action), which immediately before the establishment day was vested in or belonged to or was held in trust or subject to conditions for the former Board, and all rights, powers and privileges relating to or connected with any such property, shall on the establishment day, without any conveyance or assignment but subject where necessary to transfer in the books of any bank, corporation or company, become and be vested in or the property of or held in trust or subject to conditions for (as the case may require) the Board. | ||
(3) All property transferred by this section which immediately before the establishment day was standing in the books of any bank or was registered in the books of any bank, corporation or company in the name of the former Board shall, upon the request of the Board made at any time on or after the establishment day, be transferred in those books by the bank, corporation or company into the name of the Board. | ||
(4) Every chose-in-action transferred by this section may, on or after the establishment day, be sued upon, recovered, or enforced by the Board in its own name and it shall not be necessary for the Board to give notice to the person bound by any such chose-in-action of the transfer effected by this section. | ||
(5) Every debt or other liability (including unliquidated liabilities arising from torts or breaches of contract) which immediately before the establishment day is owing and unpaid and is undischarged by the former Board shall, on the establishment day, become and be the debt or liability of the Board and shall be paid and discharged by and may be recovered from and enforced against the Board accordingly. | ||
(6) Every contract which was entered into and is in force immediately before the establishment day between the former Board and any person shall continue in force on or after the establishment day but it shall be construed and have effect as if the Board were substituted therein for the former Board and shall be enforceable by or against the Board accordingly. | ||
(7) Where immediately before the establishment day, any legal proceedings are pending to which the former Board is a party, the name of the Board shall be substituted for that of the former Board and the proceedings shall not abate by reason of such substitution. | ||
(8) Section 12 of the Finance Act, 1895 , shall not apply to the vesting in the Board of the property or rights transferred by this section. | ||
(9) Any contract of service (express or implied) in force immediately before the establishment day between the former Board and any person shall continue in force on or after the establishment day, but shall be construed and have effect as if the name of the Board were substituted therein for the name of the former Board and every such contract shall be enforceable accordingly by or against the Board. |