(1)Where an enactment directs that [F1an Act is to be reprinted, that Act] shall be reprinted with—
(a)the addition of any words added thereto;
(b)the substitution of any words substituted therein;
(c)the omission of any words repealed therein;
by [F1any statutory provision] (including the enactment directing the reprint) for the time being in force.
(2)[F1For the purpose of reprinting any Act, the Presiding Officer shall cause to be prepared and shall certify a copy of that Act], with the additions, substitutions and omissions referred to in the preceding sub-section, and with the sections, sub-sections and paragraphs numbered in accordance with the [F1statutory provision] which makes the addition or substitution, as the case may be, and with any renumbering, and any alteration of references, cross-headings and marginal notes and with such other modifications necessarily consequential on the amendments so made andF1... such footnotes and additional references as [F1may be] necessary or desirable to assist in explaining the reprint.
(3)The Queen's Printer shall print in accordance with the copy as certified all copies of the [F1Act] to be reprinted which are printed after the passing of the enactment directing the reprint.
(4)[F1The Presiding Officer may by order direct that any Act] shall be reprinted in accordance with the foregoing sub-sections and where such order is made these sub-sections shall apply as if an enactment had directed [F1that Act] to be reprinted.
(5)Where [F1an Act] is reprinted pursuant to an order made under sub-section (4), the fact that it is so reprinted shall be stated on the reprint.
F1SI 1999/663