3 Entry into force of consolidations and this Act.U.K.

(1)Provisions of—

which are made (whether by the Act or Measure itself or by an instrument made under an enactment) to come into force on 6th April 1975 do so in that order, except that paragraph 39 of Schedule 4 to the M5National Insurance Act 1974 and section 8(7) of the M6Social Security Benefits Act 1975 (both of which make minor amendments of the repeals Schedule to the 1973 Act) come into force before that Act.

(2)Subject to the following subsections, the consolidations and this Act come into force as soon as all the provisions mentioned in subsection (1) above have done so.

(3)Nothing in the consolidations or this Act affects so much of any order under section 101 of the 1973 Act (commencement) or regulations under Schedule 26 to that Act (transition from old system of national insurance to new system of social security) as provides for an enactment repealed by that Act or this Act to continue wholly or partly in force on and after 6th April 1975 or has the effect of it so doing.

(4)Where any provision of the 1973 Act is re-enacted in the consolidations with amendments made by the M7Social Security Benefits Act 1975, having come into force subject to any modification contained in an order under Part I of Schdule 5 to the said Act of 1975 (commencement etc.), the provision as re-enacted has effect subject to the same modification.

(5)To the extent that any provision contained in the consolidations was, immediately before 6th April 1975, not yet in force and dependent for its entry into force—

(a)on an order under—

(b)on any regulation made under the 1973 Act, Schedule 26,

(not being an order or regulation of which the effect is to bring that provision into force on 6th April 1975), that provision shall continue so dependent notwithstanding that it is repealed and re-enacted (in the consolidations or this Act) and the order or regulation does not any longer apply to it in terms.