(1)The enactments mentioned in the first and second columns of the Schedule to this Act are hereby repealed to the extent specified in the third column of that Schedule.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)In so far as any regulation made or having effect as if made, or any other thing whatsoever done or having effect as if done, under an enactment repealed by this Act could have been made or done under a corresponding provision of this Act, it shall not be invalidated by the repeal effected by the foregoing subsection but shall have effect as if it had been made or done under that corresponding provision.
(3)Without prejudice to the generality of the foregoing subsection, the repeal effected by subsection (1) of this section shall not affect any direction given by the Treasury before the passing of this Act in relation to the prolongation of the period at the expiration of which any national savings certificates are required to be redeemed or repaid.
(4)Certificates of investment in government stock issued to savings banks depositors in pursuance of the M1Savings Banks Act 1880 shall be deemed, until exchanged for new certificates in pursuance of regulations under section 3 of this Act, to be certificates of stock registered in the register.
(5)Any document referring to an Act or enactment repealed by this Act shall, so far as is necessary to preserve the effect thereof, be construed as referring (or including a reference) to this Act or the corresponding enactment therein.
(6)The mention of particular matters in the foregoing provisions of this section shall not prejudice the general application of [F1sections 16(1) and 17(2)(a) of the M2Interpretation Act 1978] with regard to the effect of repeals.
Textual Amendments
F1Words substituted by virtue of Interpretation Act 1978 (c. 30), s. 25(2)
Modifications etc. (not altering text)
C1The text of ss. 6(3), 17(1) and Sch. is in the form in which it was originally enacted: it was not reproduced in Statutes in Force and does not reflect any amendments or repeals which may have been made prior to 1.2.1991.
Marginal Citations