Section 538 Repeals.

United Kingdom

(1)

The enactments mentioned in Schedule 16 to this Act are hereby repealed to the extent specified in the third column of that Schedule.

(2)

Subject to the following provisions of this section, the said repeals shall come into force in accordance with subsections (1) and (2) of section 536 above.

(3)

Subsection (2) above has effect subject to section 119(1) of the Taxes Management Act 1970, to section 536(3) above and to any other provision of this Act by which any provision is brought into force to the exclusion of the corresponding enactments repealed by this Act.

(4)

No provision mentioned in subsection (3) above shall be taken as bringing a repeal into force except to the extent that the repealed enactment is being superseded, and in particular where part of the effect of any repealed enactment is reproduced in this Act, or is not reproduced, nothing in section 119(1) of the Taxes Management Act 1970 shall be taken as bringing the repeal into force except so far as the enactment is reproduced in the Taxes Management Act 1970.

(5)

In this section “enactments” includes any statutory instrument mentioned in Schedule 16 to this Act, and references in this Act and the Taxes Management Act 1970 to the enactments repealed by this Act shall be construed accordingly.

Notes on the whole Act

Textual amendments

F1: Act repealed (in relation to Tax for the year 1992/93 and subsequent years as mentioned in s. 289 of the repealing Act) by Taxation of Chargeable Gains Act 1992 (c. 12), s. 290(3), Sch. 11 para. 24(1), Sch.12 (with savings in ss. 201(3), 290, Sch. 11 paras. 22, 26(2), 27), subject to applications, powers and amendments in the following enactments: Social Security Contributions and Benefits Act 1992 (c. 4), s. 16(1)(3), Sch. 2; Social Security (Consequential Provisions) Act 1992 (c. 6), s. 5, Sch. 3 Pt. II para. 15; Taxation of Chargeable Gains Act 1992 (c. 12), ss. 1(2), 209(3); Finance (No. 2) Act 1992, ss. 24, 49(2)(3)(a)(b)(4)(9), 77, Sch. 6 paras.4, 9, Sch. 17 paras. 6(3)(6), 7; S.I. 1992/58, arts. 9, 11(3),33, Sch. 2 para.1, S.I. 1992/1725, art. 107, Sch. 8 para.2; S.I. 1995/171, reg. 4(2)(a); S.I. 1995/1916, reg. 4; 1994 c. 9, s. 258, Sch. 26 Pt. V