2. Section 162(2) of the Environmental Protection Act 1990 shall come into force on 16th December 1996 in so far as it relates to the following repeals in Part I of Schedule 16 to that Act and the repeals extend to England and Wales:
the repeal of the whole of the Alkali, &c. Works Regulation Act 1906(1) so far as unrepealed;
the repeal of section 1(1)(d) and the word “and” preceding it and section 5 of the Health and Safety at Work etc. Act 1974(2);
the repeal, in section 79(10) of the Environmental Protection Act 1990, of the words following “Part I”.