Public Hospitals (Amendment) Act, 1990
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Liabilities in respect of sweepstake prize funds. |
4.—(1) Where, immediately before the commencement of this section, any legal proceedings were pending to which sweepstake trustees were a party, in so far as the proceedings relate to any sweepstake prize funds, the Minister shall be substituted for those trustees as a party thereto and if necessary the name of the Minister shall be substituted for that of those trustees and the proceedings shall not abate by reason of any such substitution. | |
(2) All liabilities duly incurred before the commencement of this section by sweepstake trustees, in so far as those liabilities relate to any sweepstake prize funds, shall, subject to section 7 , be transferred to the Minister on such commencement and, accordingly, no legal proceedings shall be brought at any time thereafter against the trustees or their personal representatives after such commencement in respect of any sweepstake prize funds transferred under section 2 . |