1Omit the entry for the Alcohol Education and Research Council in each of the following—
(a)Schedule 2 to the Parliamentary Commissioner Act 1967, and
(b)Part 6 of Schedule 1 to the Freedom of Information Act 2000.
2Omit the entry in Part 3 of Schedule 1 to the House of Commons Disqualification Act 1975 for the liquidator appointed under section 2 of the Licensing (Alcohol Education and Research) Act 1981.
3In consequence of the repeal made by section 278(2)—
(a)in Schedule 2 to the Trustee Act 2000, omit paragraph 40 (and the preceding cross-heading), and
(b)in Schedule 3 to the Health Act 2009, omit paragraph 2 (and the preceding cross-heading).
4(1)Anything which is in the process of being done by the Alcohol Education and Research Council under an enactment immediately before abolition may be continued by the Secretary of State.
(2)Anything which the Council is required to do under an enactment before abolition may, in so far as it has not been done by the Council, be done by the Secretary of State after abolition.
(3)The Secretary of State must prepare a report on the activities of the Council during the period that begins with the 1 April before abolition and ends with abolition.
(4)In this paragraph—
“abolition” means the commencement of section 278(1);
“enactment” includes an enactment contained in subordinate legislation (within the meaning of the Interpretation Act 1978).