Transport Charges &c. (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 1954

8 Revocation in part (with savings) of Defence Regulation 56

(1) Regulation 56 of the Defence (General) Regulations, 1939, as amended by any statutory provision, shall cease to have effect so far as it relates to any railway, light railway, tramway, road transport, water transport, canal, inland navigation, dock, harbour or pier undertaking, and sub-paragraph (a) of paragraph (4) of that Regulation is hereby revoked:

Provided that—

(a) this section shall not affect any power with respect to charges possessed by any undertaking immediately before the commencement of this section which is attributable in whole or in part to any order made by the Minister under the said Regulation authorising the undertaking to make charges in excess of, or in addition to, those which they would otherwise have been authorised to make;

(b) any other order made by the Minister under the said Regulation before the sixteenth day of February, nineteen hundred and fifty-four, if and so far as it is in force immediately before the commencement of this section, shall continue in force notwithstanding the foregoing provisions of this section, but may be revoked at any time by the Minister by order made by statutory instrument; and the provisions of subsection (2) of section thirty-eight of the Interpretation Act, 1889, shall apply to any such revocation as they apply to the repeal of an Act of Parliament.

(2) This section shall come into force at the expiration of a period of one month beginning with the date of the passing of this Act.