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Section 206.
1U.K. Where a period of time specified in an enactment repealed by this Act is current at its commencement, this Act has effect as if the provision corresponding to that enactment had been in force when that period began to run.
2U.K. The imposition or subsistence of an incapacity is not affected by the repeal by this Act of any enactment, and any such incapacity shall for the purposes of this Act be treated as having been imposed under the corresponding provision of this Act.
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F1Sch. 7 paras. 3, 6 repealed by Statute Law (Repeals) Act 1989 (c. 43), s. 1(1), Sch. 1 Pt. XI
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F2Sch. 7 para. 4 repealed (24.11.2005) by Licensing Act 2003 (c. 17), ss. 198, 199, 201, Sch. 6 para. 88, Sch. 7 (with ss. 2(3), 15(2), 195); S.I. 2005/3056, art. 2
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5U.K. So far as sections 8(4) and 26 of this Act reproduce any provision derived from the exercise of the power under section 38 of the Northern Ireland Constitution Act 1973 to make an Order in Council that provision has effect as if it were contained in an Order in Council so made.
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F3Sch. 7 paras. 3, 6 repealed by Statute Law (Repeals) Act 1989 (c. 43), s. 1(1), Sch. 1 Pt. XI
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7U.K. Any power exercisable under section 254 of the Local Government Act 1972 (consequential and supplementary provision) in relation to a provision of that Act repealed and reenacted by this Act is exercisable in relation to that provision as so reenacted to the extent that it would have been exercisable immediately before such repeal.
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F4Sch. 7 paras. 8, 9 repealed by Representation of the People Act 1985 (c. 50, SIF 42), ss. 24, 28, Sch. 4 para. 90(b), Sch. 5
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F5Sch. 7 paras. 8, 9 repealed by Representation of the People Act 1985 (c. 50, SIF 42), ss. 24, 28, Sch. 4 para. 90(b), Sch. 5
10(1)A reference in any Act (whenever passed) to—U.K.
(a)the register of parliamentary and local government electors, or
(b)the register of parliamentary electors, or
(c)the register of local government electors, or
(d)the electors lists for such a register,
shall be taken as a reference to—
(i)the register kept under this Act, or
(ii)that register so far as it relates to parliamentary electors, or
(iii)that register so far as it relates to local government electors, or
(iv)the electors lists for such a register,
as the case may be, and references in any Act to a parliamentary or local government elector shall be construed accordingly.
(2)In relation to a person shown in a register or electors list as attaining voting age on a specified date the references in subparagraph (1) above do not apply except for the purposes of an election at which the day fixed for the poll falls on or after that date.
11U.K.A reference in any Act (whenever passed) to—
(a)the registration officer for the registration of parliamentary or local government electors, or
(b)the returning officer for a parliamentary election or constituency,
shall be taken respectively as a reference to the registration officer or returning officer appointed under this Act.
12U.K. A reference in any Act (whenever passed) to registration expenses in connection with the registration of parliamentary or local government electors shall be taken as a reference to registration expenses under this Act.
13(1)Subject to this paragraph, the provisions of paragraphs 10 to 12 of this Schedule apply to a reference—U.K.
(a)to any of the matters mentioned in those provisions, whatever the terms used in that reference; and
(b)to any other matter which was to be construed as a reference to any of those matters by virtue of an enactment repealed by the Representation of the M7People Act 1948.
(2)Those provisions so far as they relate to this Act or any other Act passed after that Act of 1948 do not apply where the context otherwise requires.
(3)Those provisions so far as they relate to Acts passed before that Act of 1948 may be excluded in whole or in part by an order of the Secretary of State in any particular case where they appear to him to be inappropriate.
(4) That order may make such change in the law which this Act reproduces from the Representation of the M8People Act 1949 as might have been made before its commencement under paragraph 8(1)(c) of Part I of Schedule 10 to that Act of 1948.
(5)The provisions of paragraphs 10 to 12 may be supplemented by an order made by the Secretary of State in relation to an Act passed previous to the Representation of the M9People Act 1948—
(a)where, in any particular case, such an order appears to him necessary for harmonising the previous Act with the provisions of this Act; and
(b)to the extent that the provisions of this Act reenact such provisionsof the Representation of the People Act 1949 as re-enacted provisions of that Act of 1948.
(6)A power conferred by this paragraph to make an order shall be exercisable by statutory instrument, and any such instrument shall be subject to annulment by resolution of either House of Parliament.
(7)Nothing in paragraphs 10 to 12 shall be taken to prejudice the operation in relation to this Act of any provision of the M10Interpretation Act 1978 as to repeals.
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