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Petroleum (Consolidation) Act 1928

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26Short title, extent, repeal and commencement

(1)This Act may be cited as the Petroleum (Consolidation) Act, 1928.

(2)This Act shall not extend to Northern Ireland.

(3)The enactments mentioned in the Third Schedule to this Act are hereby repealed to the extent specified in the third column of that Schedule :

Provided that—

(a)any appointment, byelaw, regulation, order, licence, certificate or warrant, made, granted, given or issued and any proceedings taken, under any enactment hereby repealed, shall have effect as if made, granted, given, issued, or taken under the corresponding provision of this Act, and any byelaws made by a harbour authority as defined by this Act with respect to the landing of petroleum-spirit, being byelaws which under the said repealed enactments applied with the necessary modifications to the loading of ships with such spirit, shall, until revoked, continue so to apply, and references in this Act to any appointment, byelaw, regulation, order, licence, certificate, warrant or proceedings shall have effect accordingly;

(b)any regulations made under section five of the [59 & 60 Vict. c. 36.] Locomotives on Highways Act, 1896, and continued in force by subsection (4) of section ten of the [18 & 19 Geo. 5. c. 20.] Petroleum (Amendment) Act, 1928, shall have effect as if made under section ten of this Act, and in so far as any such regulations relate to any substance other than petroleum-spirit, section ten of this Act shall be deemed to have been applied to that substance under section nineteen of this Act;

(c)any document referring to any enactment repealed by this Act shall be construed as referring to this Act and to the corresponding enactment, if any, therein.

(4)The mention of particular matters in this section shall not be held to prejudice or affect the general application of section thirty-eight of the [52 & 53 Vict. c. 63.] Interpretation Act, 1889, with regard to the effect of repeals.

(5)This Act shall come into operation on the fourth day of August, nineteen hundred and twenty-eight.

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