Nurses Agencies Act 1957

9 Repeal and savings

(1) The enactments mentioned in the first and second columns of the Schedule to this Act are hereby repealed to the extent specified in the third column of that Schedule.

(2) Nothing in this Act shall affect any order, regulation or agreement made, licence granted, or other thing done under an enactment repealed by this Act, but any such order, rule, agreement, licence or other thing shall, in so far as, at the commencement of this Act, it is in force and could have been made, granted or done under the corresponding provision of this Act, continue in force and have effect as if it had been so made, granted or done.

(3) Any document referring to any Act or enactment repealed by this Act shall, unless the context otherwise requires, be construed as referring to this Act or the corresponding enactment therein.

(4) Where an offence, being an offence for the continuance of which a penalty was provided, has been committed under an Enactment repealed by this Act, proceedings may be taken under this Act in respect of the continuance of the offence after the commencement of this Act in the same manner as if the offence had been committed under the corresponding provisions of this Act.

(5) The mention of particular matters in this section shall be without prejudice to the general application of subsection (2) of section thirty-eight of the Interpretation Act, 1889, with regard to the effect of repeals.