(1)Anything done under any provision of the M1Deer Act 1963 or the M2Deer Act 1980 shall have effect as if it had been done under the corresponding provision of this Act.
(2)Without prejudice to the generality of subsection (1) above, a licence granted by the Nature Conservancy Council under section 11 of the Deer Act 1963 which, by virtue of paragraph 8 of Schedule 11 to the M3Environmental Protection Act 1990, has effect as if granted by the Nature Conservancy Council for England or the Countryside Council for Wales, shall be treated as if it had been granted under subsection (1) or, as the case may be, subsection (2) of section 8 above.
(3)Where a licence granted under section 11 of the Deer Act 1963 contains a reference to an enactment repealed by this Act, the licence shall be construed as referring, or, as the context requires, as including a reference to, the corresponding provision of this Act.
(4)Where a period of time specified in an enactment repealed by this Act is current at the commencement of this Act, this Act shall have effect as if the corresponding provision thereof had been in force when that period began to run.
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(6)The enactments specified in Schedule 4 to this Act are hereby repealed to the extent specified in the third column of that Schedule.
Textual Amendments
F1S. 17(5) repealed (18.11.1996) by 1996 c. 58, ss. 48(2)(6), Sch. 5 (with s. 43(1))
Marginal Citations