Article nineteen, relating to the civil service, shall go into effect one month after the approval of this act, except that provisions therein relating to the establishment of the civil service commission shall go into effect on the first Monday of January, one thousand nine hundred and twenty. All matters and things therein required to be done by the civil service commission and by the council shall, until such date, be done by the civil service commission and by the council or councils now in office. The terms of all civil service commissioners in office in such cities shall cease and determine on the first Monday of January, one thousand nine hundred and twenty.
53 P.S. § 12686