SCHEDULES

SCHEDULE 6 Transitional provisions and savings

Section 63(1).

1

In so far as anything done under an enactment repealed by this Act could have been done under a corresponding provision of this Act, it shall not be invalidated by the repeal but shall have effect as if done under that provision.

2

Where any period of time specified in an enactment repealed by this Act is current at the commencement of this Act, this Act shall have effect as if the corresponding provision thereof had been in force when that period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.

3

Any reference in any enactment or document, whether express or implied, to an enactment repealed by this Act shall, unless the context otherwise requires, be construed as a reference to the corresponding enactment in this Act.

4

Nothing in this Act shall affect the enactments repealed by this Act in their operation in relation to offences committed before the commencement of this Act.

5

The repeal by this Act of section 22 of the 1955 Act shall not affect the operation of that section in so far as it relates to a person who is the owner and occupier of a holding mentioned in subsection (6) of that section.

6

Notwithstanding the repeal by this Act of section 3 of the M1Crofter Forestry (Scotland) Act 1991, the amendments made by that section to section 1 of the M2Forestry Act 1979 and to section 2 of the M3Farm Land and Rural Development Act 1988 shall continue to have the same effect as they had immediately before the commencement of this Act.