5Short title, savings, repeals and extent
1
This Act may be cited as the Government Trading Act 1990.
2
Subject to subsection (3) below, any order under the [1973 c. 63.] Government Trading Funds Act 1973 in force on the day before this Act is passed shall continue to have effect with the necessary modifications as if made under section 1 of that Act as substituted by this Act, but as if—
a
the authorised lender were the National Loans Fund, and
b
in the case of the [SI 1980/456.] HMSO Trading Fund Order 1980 the words in the Schedule after paragraph (c) were omitted.
3
Nothing in this Act affects the operation of that Act in relation to the Crown Suppliers.
4
The enactments mentioned in Part II of Schedule 2 to this Act are repealed to the extent specified in the third column.
5
This Act, except section 4, extends to Northern Ireland.