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court or tribunal any proceedings to which a person holding office as the Director-General of Health was, in his capacity as the holder of

that office, a party, those proceedings may be continued after the commencement of this section as if the description of that office, for the purposes of those proceedings, were amended by omitting the words "Director-General of and substituting "Secretary to the Department of".
(3) The person who, immediately before the commencement of this section, held office as Director-General of Health shall, subject to the Public Service Act 1922, hold office after the commencement of this section as Secretary to the Department of Health.
(4) A reference in any instrument (including rules, regulations and by-laws) made, granted or issued pursuant to any Act to the Director-General of Health shall, in relation to any act or thing done, or to be done, after the commencement of this section, be read as a reference to the Secretary to the Department of Health.
(5) Any act or thing done at any time before the commencement of this section by a person or by a delegate of a person who, at that time, held office as, or acted in the office of, the Director-General of Social Security, being an act or thing done pursuant to the person's duties as the holder of, or person acting in, that office or as a delegate of the holder of that office, shall have such consequences or effects after the commencement of this section as it would have had if the amendments made by this Act to the Aged or Disabled Persons Homes Act 1954, the Aged or Disabled Persons Hostels Act 1972, the Defence (Re-establishment) Act 1965, the Delivered Meals Subsidy Act 1970, the Handicapped Persons Assistance Act 1974, the Health Insurance Act 1973, the National Health Act 1953 (other than the amendments made by this Act to sub-sections 105aaa (1), (2), (4), (5) and (6) and paragraphs 105AC (1aa) (a) and (b) and (1b) (a) of that Act), the Re-establishment and Employment Act 1945, the Sales Tax (Exemptions and Classifications) Act 1935, the Social Security Act 1947 and paragraphs 16 (4) (e) and (j) and sub-section 159j (6) of the Income Tax Assessment Act 1936 had not been made, but any power or function conferred by any Act may be exercised or performed after the commencement of this section in relation to that act or thing as if that act or thing had been done by the Secretary to the Department of Social Security or by a delegate of the Secretary to the Department of Social Security, as the case may be.
(6) Where, immediately before the commencement of this section, there were