1. The provisions of this Code shall apply to all legal proceedings that have yet to be adjudicated on, as well as all procedures that have yet to be implemented, prior to the date of entry into force of this Code, with the following exceptions: a.The jurisdiction-amending provisions where their date of entry into force falls beyond the close of pleadings into the legal proceeding before the Court of First Instance; b.The time limit-amending provisions where the underlying time limit has already commenced prior to their entry into force; and c.The provisions regulating the means of challenging judgments with regard to the judgments rendered prior to their date of entry into force, where such laws are either repealed or creating any of such means. 2. Every procedure validly conducted under an applicable law shall remain valid and effective unless otherwise stipulated. 3. The time limits regulating the inadmissibility or lapse of proceedings or other procedural time limits that are newly prescribed shall only commence on the date of entry into force of the law prescribing the same.
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