132. The cessation of the effect of sections 16 to 16k of the Act to prolong and amend the Act to promote conciliation between lessees and property-owners (1975, c. 84) does not entail the loss of the rights acquired under those sections, nor legalize retroactively acts declared null or illegal by those sections.
Recourses and penal proceedings respecting the applicability of those sections that have been exercised or that are under advisement before a court, an administrator or the Commission des loyers are continued, heard and decided in accordance with those sections where the recourse or the penal proceeding is based on one of those sections or where it regards the applicability of the Act to promote conciliation between lessees and property-owners (chapter C-50) to a dwelling contemplated in those sections. The prescription of such a recourse or penal proceeding not exercised by 31 December 1979 continues to run after that date. Until that prescription is acquired, that recourse or penal proceeding may be exercised, heard and decided according to the sections mentioned in the first paragraph.