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Electricity Act 1957

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42Amendment and adaptation of enactments, and repeals

(1)Without prejudice to the amendments and adaptations of enactments having effect by virtue of the preceding provisions of this Act, the enactments specified in the Fourth Schedule to this Act, and all other enactments (including local enactments) to which any general provisions of Part II of that Schedule apply, shall have effect subject to the amendments and adaptations specified in that Schedule, being—

(a)amendments and adaptations for transferring functions of the Central Authority to the Electricity Council, the Generating Board or the Minister, or for applying to the Electricity Council, the Generating Board or the Minister provisions which apply to the Central Authority;

(b)amendments and adaptations consequential on the preceding provisions of this Act or on the amendments and adaptations referred to in the preceding paragraph ;

(c)other amendments of a minor character.

(2)In so far as any reference in a local enactment to any authorised undertakers, or to any matter relating to any authorised undertakers.—

(a)has effect as adapted or modified by virtue of subsection (3) of section fifty-seven of the principal Act, and

(b)as so adapted or modified, has effect as a reference to the Central Authority, or to any matter relating to the Central Authority,

that reference shall have effect as a reference to the Generating Board, or to the corresponding matter relating to the Generating Board, as the case may be; and so much of the said subsection (3) as confers power to prescribe other adaptations and modifications of local enactments shall apply in relation to the provisions of this Act (including the preceding provisions of this subsection) as it applies in relation to the provisions mentioned in that subsection.

(3)Subject to the provisions of subsection (4) of the next following section, the enactments specified in the Fifth Schedule to this Act are hereby repealed to the extent specified in the third column of that Schedule.

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