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Ministry of Outer Islands Development (Repeal) Act 2000

COOK ISLANDS

MINISTRY OF OUTER ISLANDS DEVELOPMENT (REPEAL) ACT 2000

ANALYSIS

Title
1. Short Title
2. Transitional
3. Repeal

2000, No. 15

An Act to repeal the Ministry of Outer Islands Development Act 1994

(16 August 2000

BE IT ENACTED by the Parliament of the Cook Islands in Session assembled, and by the authority of the same as follows:

1. Short Title

This Act may be cited as the Ministry of Outer Islands Development (Repeal) Act 2000.

2. Transitional

(1) Notwithstanding the repeal of the Ministry of Outer Islands Development Act 1994, -

(a) a person employed within the Ministry of Outer Islands Development on the date that this Act shall come into force, shall after that date, and subject to their respective terms and conditions of employment, be deemed to be employed as follows -

• (i) any person employed in Rarotonga, shall be deemed to be employed within the Office of the Minister for Island Administration;
• (ii) any person employed in the Outer Islands, shall be deemed to be employed within the Island Administration Office of that person's island;
• (ii) any health professionals employed in the Outer Islands pursuant to contracts of employment with the Ministry of Outer Islands Development, shall be deemed to be employed with the Ministry of Health;

(b) without limiting the provisions of the Acts Interpretation Act 1924, it is hereby declared that the amendment or repeal of any enactment or provision of any enactment, by or pursuant to this Act shall not affect any appointment, document made or anything whatsoever done under the enactment so repealed or provisions so amended, and every such appointment, document or thing so far as it subsists or is in force at the time of the repeal or amendment, shall continue and have effect as if the enactment repealed or provision amended, had not been so repealed or amended.

(2) Without further appropriation than this section, the sum appropriated to the Outer Islands in Schedule 1(b) of the Appropriation Act 2000, shall upon this Act coming into force, be regarded as appropriated as follows -

(a) any part of that appropriation identified for the Head Office, shall be appropriated to the Office of the Minister for Island Administration;
(b) any part of that appropriation identified under the Appropriation Act 2000 for each of the Outer Islands, shall be appropriated to the respective Island Administration Office of each island.

3. Repeal

The Ministry of Outer Islands Development Act 1994 is hereby repealed.

This Act is administered by the Office of the Minister for Island Administration

RAROTONGA, COOK ISLANDS: Printed under the authority of the Cook Islands Government - 2000