Chapter:	481	Title:	INHERITANCE (PROVISION FOR FAMILY AND DEPENDANTS) ORDINANCE	Gazette Number:
Section:	33	Heading:	Transitional provisions	Version Date:	30/06/1997

(1) The repeal of provisions referred to in sections 28 and 29 shall not affect their operation in relation to any application made thereunder (whether before or after the commencement of this Ordinance) with reference to the death of any person who died before the commencement of this Ordinance.
(2) Without prejudice to section 23 of the Interpretation and General Clauses Ordinance (Cap 1) (which relates to the effect of repeals) nothing in any repeal made by this Ordinance shall affect any order made or direction given under any enactment repealed by this Ordinance, and, subject to this Ordinance, every such order or direction (other than an order made under section 11 of the Deceased's Family Maintenance Ordinance (Cap 129)) shall, if it is in force at the commencement of this Ordinance or is made by virtue of subsection (1), continue in force as if it had been made under section 4(1)(a) of this Ordinance, and for the purposes of section 8(7) of this Ordinance the court in exercising its powers under that section in relation to an order continued in force by this subsection shall be required to have regard to any change in any of the circumstances to which the court would have been required to have regard when making that order if the order had been made with reference to the death of any person who died after the commencement of this Ordinance.