Section 20 Last five sections not to apply to pending petitions.

The foregoing provision contained in the preceding five sections shall apply only where the petition for inquiry is presented after the commencement of the Act and the cases to be commenced by a report and order thereon under the provisions herein-before contained, and every petition thereto before presented and on which an order has not then been made, shall, with respect to the inquiry as to the lunacy of the alleged lunatic, be proceeded on as if this Act had not been passed.