(1)Subsections (5) and (6) of section one of the principal Act (which made temporary provision for' enabling the Minister by order to modify the provisions of the First Schedule to that Act for the purpose of substituting for any road specified therein a road in course of construction at the date of the passing of that Act, or for the purpose of correcting or clarifying the description of any road specified in that Schedule) shall apply in relation to roads which become trunk roads by virtue of this Act subject to the following modifications, that is to say:—
(a)for any reference to the First Schedule to that Act there shall be substituted a reference to the First Schedule to this Act;
(b)for the reference to the passing of the principal Act there shall be substituted a reference to the passing of this Act, and for the words " the first day of April, nineteen hundred and thirty-seven " and the words " the thirty-first day of March, nineteen hundred and thirty-nine " there shall be substituted respectively the words " the first day of April, nineteen hundred and forty-six " and the words " the thirty-first day of March, nineteen hundred and forty-eight " ; and
(c)the reference to a county shall be construed as including a reference to a county borough and a metropolitan borough.
(2)Subsection (4) of section five of the principal Act (which conferred on the Minister special powers exercisable for the purpose of securing continuity of administration during the period of two years following the thirty-first day of March, nineteen hundred and thirty-seven) shall have effect, in relation to any road specified in the First Schedule to this Act, as if for the references therein to the thirty-first day of March, nineteen hundred and thirty-seven and the thirty-first day of March, nineteen hundred and thirty-nine there were substituted respectively references to the thirty-first day of March, nineteen hundred and forty-six and to the thirty-first day of March, nineteen hundred and forty-eight.
(3)The provisions set out in the Fifth Schedule to the principal Act (which relate to transitional matters) shall have effect for the purposes of this Act as if in paragraph 3 of the said Schedule for the reference to the first day of April, nineteen hundred and thirty-seven, there were substituted a reference to the first day of April, nineteen hundred and forty-six, and for the reference to the sixth day of July, nineteen hundred and thirty-six there were substituted a reference to the twenty-sixth day of October, nineteen hundred and forty-five.