Employment Protection (Consolidation) Act 1978

General

1 So far as anything done or treated as done under or for the purposes of any enactment repealed by this Act could have been done under a corresponding provision of this Act it shall not be invalidated by the repeal but shall have effect as if done under or for the purposes of that provision.

2 Where any period of time specified in an enactment repealed by this Act is current immediately before the corresponding provision of this Act comes into force, this Act shall have effect as if the corresponding provision had been in force when that period began to run.

3 Nothing in this Act shall affect the enactments repealed by this Act in their operation in relation to offences committed before the commencement of this Act.

4 Any reference in an enactment or document, whether express or implied, to—

(a) an enactment which is re-enacted in a corresponding provision of this Act;

(b) an enactment replaced or amended by a provision of the [1975 c. 71.] Employment Protection Act 1975 which is re-enacted in a corresponding provision of this Act;

(c) an enactment in the [1971 c. 72.] Industrial Relations Act 1971 which was re-enacted with or without amendment in a corresponding provision in Schedule 1 to the [1974 c. 52.] Trade Union and Labour Relations Act 1974 and that corresponding provision is re-enacted by a corresponding provision of this Act;

shall, except so far as the context otherwise requires, be construed as, or as including, a reference to the corresponding provision of this Act.

5 Paragraphs 1 to 4 have effect subject to the following provisions of this Schedule.