Compulsory Purchase (Vesting Declarations) Act 1981

Section 16(2).

SCHEDULE 4 Transitional

References to old law to include new law

1 (1) This paragraph is without prejudice to section 17(2)(a) of the [1978 c. 30.] Interpretation Act 1978 as extended to the interpretation of subordinate legislation and instruments and documents by section 23(2) and (3) of that Act.

(2) Any document made, served or issued before the passing of this Act or at any time thereafter (whether before or after the commencement of this Act) and containing a reference to an enactment repealed by this Act shall, except in so far as a contrary intention appears, be construed as referring, or as the context requires, as including a reference, to the corresponding provision of this Act.

References to new law to include old law

2 Any reference, whether express or implied, in any enactment, instrument or document (including this Act and any enactment amended by Schedule 3 to this Act) to, or to things done or falling to be done under or for the purposes of, any provision of this Act shall, if and so far as the nature of the reference permits, be construed as including, in relation to the circumstances or purposes in relation to which the corresponding provision in the enactments repealed by this Act has or had effect, a reference to, or as the case may be to things done or falling to be done under or for the purpose of, that corresponding provision.

Periods of time

3 Where a period of time specified in any enactment repealed by this Act is current at the commencement of this Act, this Act has effect as if the corresponding provision of this Act had been in force when that period began to run.

Successor authorities

4 (1) Any reference in this Act (whether express or implied) to a thing done by a Minister, or by a local authority, under a provision of this Act includes, except where the context otherwise requires, a reference to the corresponding thing done by a predecessor authority under the corresponding enactment repealed by this Act.

(2) In this paragraph " predecessor authority " means—

(a) where the relevant function has been transferred from one Minister to another, the Minister from whom the function was transferred.

(b) where the relevant function has been transferred from one local authority to another, under any enactment (including in particular the [1963 c. 33.] London Government Act 1963, the [1972 c. 70.] Local Government Act 1972 and the [1973 c. 37.] Water Act 1973), the authority from whom the function was transferred.

Exclusion of compulsory purchase order in force before 1st April 1969

5 This Act shall not apply to the compulsory acquisition of land with respect to which a compulsory purchase order was in force before 1st April 1969.