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Education (Amendment) Act 2002

TONGA

EDUCATION (AMENDMENT) ACT 2002

Act 36 of 2002

AN ACT TO AMEND THE EDUCATION ACT

I assent,
TAUFA'AHAU TUPOU IV,
17th March, 2004

[20th November, 2002]

BE IT ENACTED by the King and the Legislative Assembly of Tonga in the Legislature of the Kingdom as follows:

1. Short title and commencement

(1) This Act may be cited as the Education (Amendment) Act 2002.

(2) The Education Act (Cap. 86) as amended, is in this Act referred to as the Principal Act.

(3) This Act shall come into force on the same date as the Public Service Act 2002 comes into force.

2. Repeal of sections 8, 9, 18(2) and (3) and 19.

The Principal Act shall be amended by repealing sections 8, 9, 18(2) and (3) and 19.

3. Savings

(1) All subsidiary legislation made under the Principal Act and in force immediately before the coming into force of this Act, so far as it is consistent with the provisions of the Public Service Act 2002, shall continue in force as if made under that Act.

(2) A disciplinary case, an appeal or action before the Supreme Court pursuant to the Principal Act pending immediately before the commencement of the Public Service Act 2002, may be continued, and shall be heard as if the provision in the Principal Act had continued in force.

Passed in the Legislative Assembly this 20th day of November, 2002.

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