Patents and Companies Registration Agency [No. 15 of 2010 117 PART V GENERAL PROVISIONS The Minister may, by statutory instrument, on the recommendation of the Agency, make regulations for the better carrying out of the provisions of this Act. The Schedule applies in relation to the savings and transitional provisions. Regulations Savings and transitional provisions SCHEDULE (Section 21) SAVINGS AND TRANSITIONAL PROVISIONS The Department constituted pursuant to section three Dissolution hundred and sixty-six of the Companies Act, section two of the of Registration of Registered Business Names Act, section three of Department the Patents Act, section three of the Trade Marks Act and section Cap. 388 three of the Registered Designs Act respectively, shall stand Cap. 389 Cap. 400 dissolved on the appointed date. Cap. 401 Cap. 402 (1) For the avoidance of doubt, a person who, before the commencement of this Act, was an officer or employee of the Department, shall continue to be an officer or employee of the Agency, as the case may be, as if appointed or employed under this Act. The service of the persons referred to in subparagraph (1) shall be treated as continuous service. Nothing in this Act affects the rights and liabilities of any person employed or appointed by the Department before the appointed date. 3. (1) On or after the appointed date, there shall be transferred to, vest in and subsist against the Agency by virtue of this Act and without further assurance— the affairs of the Department; and subject to this Act, all property, rights and obligations which immediately before the appointed date were the property, rights and obligations of the Department. (2) Except as provided in this Act, every deed, bond and agreement, other than an agreement for personnel service, to which Staff of Department Vesting of assets and liabilities