Government Annuities Act 1929

36 Repeals and savings

(1) The enactments mentioned, in Part I of the Second. Schedule to this Act are hereby repealed to the extent specified in the third column of that part of that schedule.

(2) This Part of this Act shall apply to all annuities granted before and in force at the commencement of this Act under any enactment so repealed as if they had been granted under this Part of this Act, and where a person entitled to an annuity granted before the commencement of this Act purchases an annuity under this Part of this Act depending on the life of the same nominee as the former annuity, the annuity so purchased shall be added to the former annuity, and the two shall be treated as a single annuity depending on the life of such nominee, as if both annuities had been granted under this Act:

Provided that—

(a) An annuity being a deferred life annuity granted before the fourteenth day of July eighteen hundred and sixty-four shall remain charged upon and issuable out of the Consolidated Fund or the growing produce thereof; and

(b) This Part of this Act shall apply to an annuity granted under any such repealed enactment before the twenty-eighth day of July eighteen hundred and eighty-eight, subject to the modifications set forth in Part I of the Third Schedule to this Act.

(3) All regulations and tables made under any enactment so repealed shall continue in force and have effect as if they had been made under this Act.

(4) All powers of attorney and other instruments in respect of any annuity granted under any enactment so repealed, or in respect of an application for any such annuity, executed before the commencement of this Act, shall continue in force and have the same validity as if this Act had not been passed.