883. All the orders, orders in council, letters patent, proclamations, regulations, by-laws, resolutions and ordinances in force on 31 December 1987 and issued or made under a provision replaced or repealed by this Act remain in force until the date fixed for the cessation of their effect, until their object is achieved or until they are replaced or repealed by this Act. Where such is the case, they are deemed to have been issued or made under the corresponding provision of this Act.
Notwithstanding the foregoing, they are without effect if their object is to fix the hours of the poll, fix the term of the members of the council, order that the poll be held at several places or that the vote be taken by voice vote or, except for the purposes of section 869.1, fix the first Monday of November as the date of the poll at a regular election.
1987, c. 57, s. 883; 1987, c. 100, s. 3.