Weeds Act 1959

10 Repeal and savings

(1) The enactments specified in the first and second columns of the Schedule to this Act are hereby repealed to the extent specified in the third column of that Schedule.

(2) Any document referring to an enactment repealed by this Act shall be construed as referring to the corresponding enactment of this Act.

(3) For the purpose of determining the punishment which may be imposed on a person in respect of an offence under subsection (1) of section two of this Act, an offence committed by him under paragraph (3) of the Schedule to the Corn Production Acts (Repeal) Act, 1921, shall be deemed to have been committed under the said subsection (1).

(4) This Act shall not apply in a case where a notice was served under paragraph (1) of the Schedule to the said Act of 1921 before the first day of August, nineteen hundred and fifty-eight (being the date of the passing of the Agriculture Act, 1958), and the provisions of that Schedule shall continue to apply in relation to that case as they applied immediately before the said first day of August.

(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.