CAP. 172 17 18. (1) Subject to section 19, any resident’s certificate, certificate of exemption, entry permit or pass (including a re-entry pass) granted or issued, or deemed to have been granted or issued, under the repealed Acts shall have effect according to its terms as if it had been issued under this Act in pursuance of a power conferred by this Act, and the provisions of this Act relating to entry into and presence in Kenya, and to engaging in Kenya in any employment, occupation, trade, business or profession, shall be read and construed accordingly. Temporary validity of permits and passes issued under repealed Act. Rev. 2010] Immigration Transitional Provisions and Repeals (2) For the purposes of this section, a person who immediately before the commencement of this Act would have been entitled upon application, under the repealed Acts, to be granted a resident’s certificate shall be deemed to have been granted under the repealed Acts, immediately before the commencement of this Act, a resident’s certificate of the appropriate period of validity. 19. (1) The Minister may at any time by notice in the Gazette Notice by Minister to require any person or class of persons whose presence in Kenya would, apply for permits and but for section 18 (1), be unlawful to apply to an immigration officer in passes. the prescribed manner for an entry permit or pass. (2) For the purposes of any notice under this section, a class of persons may be described as the persons employed by a specified employer, or as the persons engaged in a specified occupation, profession, trade or business, or as the persons who are or who are deemed to be the holders of a resident’s certificate or of any specified class or description of entry permit or pass. (3) After the expiration of the period of three months immediately following the date of publication of a notice under this section, section 18 shall cease to have effect in relation to any person to whom that notice relates, and any certificate, permit or pass granted or issued, or deemed to have been granted or issued, to that person under the repealed Acts shall cease to have effect. 20. (1) Upon application being made by any person to whom a Issue of permits and notice under section 19 (1) applies, in the manner and within the time passes after notice. specified in that notice, an immigration officer may in his discretion issue to that person an entry permit of the appropriate class, a provisional entry permit of that class or a pass. (2) A provisional entry permit of any class shall, for so long as it remains in force, have the same effect for the purposes of this Act as an entry permit of the same class.