Section 71 Transitional provisions and savings, amendments and repeals.
England and Wales
The transitional provisions and savings in Schedule 1 to this Act shall have effect.
Subject to subsection (1) above—
the enactments specified in Schedule 2 to this Act shall have effect subject to the amendments specified in that Schedule ; and
the enactments specified in Schedule 3 to this Act are hereby repealed to the extent specified in the third column of that Schedule.
Subject to any express amendment or repeal made by this Act, any enactment passed or instrument made before the 18th April 1973 and in force at the commencement of this Act shall have effect in relation to any time thereafter as if—
any reference to a person appointed justice by a commission of the peace or to a person being removed from a commission of the peace were a reference to his being appointed or removed from office as a justice of the peace in accordance with section 6 of this Act; and
any reference to a supplemental list kept by virtue of section 4 of the Justices of the M1Peace Act 1949 in connection with the commission of the peace for any area were a reference to the supplemental list for England and Wales kept under section 8 of this Act.
The inclusion in this Act of any express transitional provision, saving or amendment shall not be taken as prejudicing the operation of sections 16 and 17 of the M2Interpretation Act 1978 (which relate to the effect of repeals).
Annotations
Marginal citations
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Modifications
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The text of S. 71(2), and Sch. 3 is in the form in which it was originally enacted: it was not reproduced in Statutes in Force and does not reflect any amendments or repeals which may have been made prior to 1.2.1991.
Notes on the whole Act
Textual amendments
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Act repealed (19.6.1997) by 1997 c. 25, ss. 73(3), 74(1), Sch. 6 Pt.I (with savings in Sch. 4 Pt. II paras. 6(a), 23, 28 and saving (temp.) for ss. 58 and 70 of the repealed Act in Sch. 4 Pt. II para. 7(2)(a)