Sea Fisheries (Shellfish) Act 1967

24 Consequential amendments, repeals and transitional provisions

(1) The enactments mentioned in Schedule 2 to this Act shall have effect subject to the amendments specified therein, being amendments consequential on the provisions of this Act.

(2) The Acts specified in Schedule 3 to this Act shall be repealed to the extent specified in the third column of that Schedule.

(3) In so far as any order, regulation or licence made or granted under any enactment repealed by this Act, or any other tiling done under any such enactment, could have been made, granted or done under a corresponding provision of this Act, it shall not be invalidated by the repeals effected by this section but shall have effect as if made, granted or done under that corresponding provision.

(4) Without prejudice to subsection (3) of this section, any reference in this Act to a thing done under any provision of this Act shall, except where the context otherwise requires, be construed as including a reference to the corresponding thing done under the corresponding provision of the enactments repealed by this Act.

(5) Where any Act or any document refers, either expressly or by implication, to an enactment repealed by this Act, the reference shall, except where the context otherwise requires, be construed as a reference to the corresponding provision of this Act.

(6) For the purpose of determining the punishment (by fine, imprisonment or both) which may be imposed on a person in respect of an offence under any provision of this Act, an offence committed by that person under the corresponding enactment repealed by this Act shall be deemed to have been committed under that provision.

(7) Nothing in this section shall be taken as prejudicing the operation of section 38 of the [1889 c. 63.] Interpretation Act 1889 (which relates to the effect of repeals).