Section 4 Repeals and Savings.

Sections one, two and four of and the Schedule to the M1Diocesan Education Committees Measure 1943, and the M2Diocesan Education Committees Measure 1943 (Amendment) Measure 1951 are hereby repealed:

Any diocesan education committee (whether corporate or unincorporate) which immediately before the passing of this Measure was constituted in accordance with the Schedule to the M4Diocesan Education Committees Measure 1943, if in existence at the passing of this Measure shall be deemed to be duly constituted as a diocesan education committee in accordance with the Schedule to this Measure.

Any order expressed to have been made by the Board of Education or the Minister under section one of the M5Diocesan Education Committees Measure 1943, as originally passed or as amended by the M6Diocesan Education Committees Measure 1943 (Amendment) Measure 1951, shall be deemed always to have been validly made and shall have effect as from the passing of this Measure as if so made under section one of this Measure; and any body of persons (whether corporate or unincorporate), which by virtue of any such order is deemed to have been a diocesan education committee duly set up and constituted in accordance with the provisions of the said Measure of 1943 as originally passed or as amended by the said Measure of 1951 shall, as from the passing of this Measure, be deemed to be a diocesan education committee duly constituted as required by section one of this Measure.

Without prejudice to the provisions of subsection (3) of this section, where any such order directs, in relation to any diocese, that a body of persons shall be deemed to be a diocesan education committee duly set up and constituted in accordance with the provisions of the said Measure of 1943 as amended by the said Measure of 1951 and that body of persons had before the making of the order been incorporated under the M7Companies Act 1948, that order shall be deemed to have had effect as from the date on which that body of persons was so incorporated, and accordingly that body of persons shall be deemed as from that date to have taken the place of the diocesan education committee in existence for that diocese immediately before that date.

Nothing in this section shall affect any representation, arrangement, agreement or request made, resolution passed, advice, direction, consent or notice given, or thing done under any Measure or provision of a Measure repealed by this Measure, but every such representation, arrangement, agreement, request, resolution, advice, direction, consent, notice or thing shall continue in force and shall, so far as it could have been made, passed, given or done under this Measure have effect as if it had been made, passed, given or done under this Measure.

Any person holding office, or acting or serving, under or by virtue of any Measure or any provision of any Measure repealed by this Measure shall continue to hold office, or to act or serve as if he had been elected, co-opted, nominated or appointed or had acted or served under this Measure, and nothing in this repeal shall affect the terms and conditions on and subject to which he held such office or acted or served immediately before the passing of this Measure.

Any instrument or other document referring to any Measure or any provision of any Measure repealed by this Measure shall be construed as referring to this Measure or to the corresponding provision of this Measure.