Therapeutic Substances Act 1956

PART III General

16 Application of Statutory Instruments Act, 1946, to regulations

Any power conferred by this Act to make regulations shall be exercisable by statutory instrument which shall be subject to annulment in pursuance of a resolution of either House of Parliament.

17 General provisions as to Northern Ireland

(1) In the application of this Act to Northern Ireland, the expression "summary conviction" means conviction in accordance with the enactments (including enactments of the Parliament of Northern Ireland) for the time being in force in Northern Ireland relating to summary jurisdiction.

(2) Rules may be made under section sixty-one of the Supreme Court of Judicature Act (Ireland), 1877, as in force in Northern Ireland, regulating the practice, procedure and costs of appeals under the proviso to subsection (4) of section two of this Act.

(3) For the purposes of section six of the Government of Ireland Act, 1920, this Act shall be deemed to be an Act passed before the day appointed for the purposes of that section, but nothing in this section shall be construed as extending the legislative powers of the Parliament of Northern Ireland under section four of that Act.

18 Repeal and savings

(1) The enactments specified in the first and second columns of the Second Schedule to this Act are hereby repealed to the extent specified in the third column of that Schedule.

(2) In so far as any regulation made, or having effect as if made, licence issued or other thing done under an enactment repealed by this Act could have been made, issued or done under a corresponding provision of this Act, it shall not be invalidated by the repeal effected by the foregoing subsection but shall have effect as if it had been made, issued or done under that corresponding provision.

(3) Any document referring to an Act or enactment repealed by this Act shall be construed as referring to this Act or the corresponding enactment therein.

(4) For the purpose of determining the punishment which may be imposed on a person in respect of an offence under any provision of this Act, an offence committed by him under the corresponding provision of an enactment repealed by this Act shall be deemed to have been committed under the first-mentioned provision.

(5) The mention of particular matters in this section shall be without prejudice to the general application of subsection (2) of section thirty-eight of the Interpretation Act, 1889, with regard to the effect of repeals.

19 Short title and commencement

(1) This Act may be cited as the Therapeutic Substances Act, 1956.

(2) This Act shall come into operation at the expiration of one month beginning with the date of its passing.