Section 18 Repeal and transitional provisions.

The Customs Duties (Dumping and Subsidies) Acts 1957 and 1968 and section 13(6) of the M1Import Duties Act 1958 are hereby repealed.

The repeal by this Act of the M2Customs Duties (Dumping and Subsidies) Acts 1957 M3 and 1968 shall not invalidate any order or regulations made or other thing done under or in connection with those Acts; and as from the commencement of this Act, this Act and any other relevant enactment shall have the like effect in relation to any orders or regulations made or other things done under or in connection with those Acts as it would have in relation to a like thing done under or in connection with this Act.

Without prejudice to subsection (2) above so much of any document as refers expressly or by implication to any enactment repealed by this Act shall, if and so far as the context permits, be construed as referring to this Act or the corresponding enactment therein.

Nothing in subsection (2) or (3) above shall be taken to exclude the general application to this Act of F1sections 16(1) and 17(2)(a) of the M4Interpretation Act 1978 (which relates to repeals).