Transitional provision
3. Section 54 of the 1948 Act (inquiries for the purposes of that Act) shall continue to apply so far as the purposes of that Act relate to persons under the age of eighteen until section 81 of the Children Act 1989(1) comes into force.
(1)
1989 c. 41. At the time of the making of this Order, no day had been appointed for the coming into force of section 81.