Application
4. Article 3 shall have effect only in relation to a person appointed to the office of General Commissioner on or after 1st January 1996 and accordingly—
(a)section 26(1) of the 1993 Act shall apply only to a General Commissioner appointed on or after 1st January 1996;
(b)the following provisions of the 1993 Act shall not apply to a General Commissioner, whenever appointed—
(i)in section 26(3), the words from “subject to”to “but”;
(ii)section 26(11); and
(iii)Schedule 7;
(c)section 2(7) of the 1970 Act shall continue to have effect only in relation to a General Commissioner appointed on or before 31st December 1995.