The provisions of this act insofar as they are the same or substantially the same as those of any prior statute shall be construed as a continuation of the prior statute and not as a new enactment. If any other statutory reference is made to an act of the Legislature or a section of such an act, which is continued in this act, the reference shall be held to refer to the act or section thereof so continued in this act.

Amended by Chapter 4, 1993 General Session