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Actions, etc., not to abate.
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24.—No action, prosecution, suit, appeal or notice of appeal, order or decision of any District Justice or matter pending before any District Justice, distress, entry, execution, arbitration, award or other proceeding whatsoever commenced, carried on or levied, given, made, or taken by for or against the former Commissioners or with reference to the port, pier or other works within their jurisdiction previously to the commencement of this Act shall abate or be discontinued, annulled or prejudicially affected by the repeal of the Act of 1855; but on the contrary the same shall continue and take effect in favour of or against or in reference to the Commissioners acting under this Act in the same manner in all respects as the same would have continued and taken effect in favour of or against or in reference to the former Commissioners if this Act had not been passed; and all penalties incurred by or for any offence against the provisions of the Act of 1855 or against any bye-law or regulation of or concerning the former Commissioners or the port, pier or other works within their jurisdiction previously to the commencement of this Act shall and may be sued for and recovered, and all offences which may have been committed before the commencement of this Act against the provisions of the Act of 1855 or of any such bye-law or regulation may be prosecuted in such and the like manner to all intents and purposes as the same might have been sued for, recovered and prosecuted respectively if the Act of 1855 had not been repealed; the Commissioners acting under this Act being, in reference to the matters aforesaid, in all respects considered identical with the Commissioners acting under the Act of 1855.
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