Senior Courts Act 1981

152 Amendments of other Acts, transitional provisions, savings and repeals.U.K.

X1(1)The enactments specified in Schedule 5 shall have effect subject to the amendments there specified, being amendments consequential on the provisions of this Act.

(2)Until its repeal by this Act takes effect, section 9 of the M1Administration of Justice Act 1970 (constitution of the criminal division of the Court of Appeal) shall have effect as if the provisions which appear in this Act as subsections (3), (4), and (5) of section 55 were, as subsections (2), (2A) and (2B) respectively, substituted for subsection (2) of the said section 9 (with “court” in those subsections meaning a court of that division).

(3)This Act shall have effect subject to the transitional provisions and savings contained in Schedule 6.

X1(4)The enactments mentioned in Schedule 7 (which include certain obsolete or unnecessary provisions) are hereby repealed to the extent specified in the third column of that Schedule.

X1(5)The following instruments are hereby revoked—

(a)the M2District Probate Registries Order 1968;

(b). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . F1

(c)any Order in Council amending subsection (1)(b) of section 1 of the M3Administration of Justice Act 1968 which was made under that section before the commencement of this Act.

Editorial Information

X1The text of s. 152(1)(4)(5), Sch. 5 and Sch. 7 is in the form in which it was originally enacted: it was not reproduced in Statutes in Force and, except as specified, does not reflect any amendments or repeals which may have been made prior to 1.2.1991

Textual Amendments

F1S. 152(5)(b) repealed by S.I. 1982/1188, art. 3(b)

Marginal Citations