Acts 2017 515 (6) Any application made to the Data Protection Office under the repealed Act and which is pending at the commencement of this Act shall be dealt with in accordance with this Act. (7) Any Code of Practice or Guideline issued under the repealed Act shall, at the commencement of this Act, continue to remain in force. (8) Any act or thing done, or any contract or agreement entered into, by the Data Protection Office shall, at the commencement of this Act, be deemed to have been done or entered into by the Office. (9) All proceedings, judicial or otherwise, initiated before and pending at the commencement of this Act, by or against the Data Protection Office or the Commissioner, may be continued, by or against the Office or the Commissioner, as the case may be. (10) For the purpose of section 45, the period starting from the commencement of this Act to the end of the year of such commencement shall be deemed to be the first year for the filing of the annual report. (11) Where this Act does not make provision for any transition, the Minister may make such regulations as may be necessary for such transition. 58. Commencement (1) Subject to subsection (2), this Act shall come into operation on a date to be fixed by Proclamation. (2) Different dates may be fixed for the coming into operation of different sections of this Act. Passed by the National Assembly on the eighth day of December two thousand and seventeen. Bibi Safeena Lotun (Mrs) Clerk of the National Assembly _______________