Film Levy Finance Act 1981

10 Consequential and transitional provisions

(1) Schedule 2 to the [1958 c. 51.] Public Records Act 1958 (enactments prohibiting disclosure of information obtained from the public) shall be amended as follows—

(a) the entry relating to section 5 of the [1957 c. 21.] Cinematograph Films Act 1957 shall be omitted; and

(b) at the end there shall be added—

“The Film Levy Finance Act 1981

Section 8”

(2) The enactments mentioned in Schedule 2 are hereby repealed to the extent specified in the third column of that Schedule.

(3) The [S.I. 1979/395.] Cinematograph Films (Limits of Levy) Order 1979 is hereby revoked.

(4) Any reference in this Act (whether express or implied) to a thing done or falling to be done under a provision of this Act shall, so far as the context permits, be construed as including, in relation to times, circumstances and purposes in relation to which the corresponding enactment repealed by this Act had effect, a reference to a thing done or falling to be done under that corresponding enactment.

(5) If at the commencement of this Act there is current a period in respect of which a levy is imposed in accordance with any regulations having effect as if made under section 2, the whole of that period shall be taken into account for the purpose of determining the Agency's liability in respect of that period under section 4(1).

(6) The period mentioned in section 2(1)(a) shall be a financial year of the Agency, notwithstanding that it is longer than a year.

(7) If at the commencement of this Act the [1980 c. 43.] Magistrates' Courts Act 1980 is not in force, any reference in section 9(1) of this Act to any provision of that Act shall be read as a reference to the corresponding provision of the [1977 c. 45.] Criminal Law Act 1977.

(8) Nothing in this section shall be taken as prejudicing the operation of the provisions of the [1978 c. 30.] Interpretation Act 1978 as respects the effect of repeals.