Section 15 Repeal and savings.

England, Wales and Scotland

C1(1)

The Acts mentioned in Schedule 1 to this Act shall be repeled to the extent specified in the third column of that Schedule.

(2)

Subsection (1) above shall not affect—

(a)

any exercise of the court’s jurisdiction, or any exercise (before the coming into force of the Railway and Canal Commission (Abolition) Act M11949) of the jurisdiction of the Railway and Canal Commission,

(b)

any pending application for the grant of a right or the imposition of restrictions of any pending proceedings in the court, or

(c)

any other thing done before the coming into force of the repeals under the enactments repealed by this section,

and any thing done under any of those enactments before their repeal shall have effect as if done under the corresponding enactment in this Act.

(3)

The repeal of section 22(1) of the Coal Act M21938 shall not affect the saving in that subsection for the jurisdiction as respects a working facilities order subsisting on the vesting date mentioned in that subsection.

(4)

Any enactment or instrument or document referring to any of the enactments repealed by this section shall be construed as referring to the corresponding enactment in this Act.

F1(5)

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(6)

The mention of particular matters in this section shall be without prejudice to the provisions of F2sections 16(1) and 17(2)(a) of the Interpretation Act M31978 as regards the effect of repeals.

Annotations

Textual amendments

F1: S. 15(5) repealed (15.2.1999) by 1998 c. 17, s. 51, Sch. 5 Pt. I (with Sch. 3 para. 5(1)); S.I. 1999/161, art. 2(1)
F2: Words substituted by virtue of Interpretation Act 1978 (c. 30), s. 25(2)

Marginal citations

M1: 1949 c. 11.
M2: 1938 c. 52.
M3: 1978 c. 30.

Modifications

C1: The text of s. 15(1) is in the form in which it was originally enacted: it was not reproduced in Statutes in Force and does not reflect any amendments or repeals which may have been made prior to 1.2.1991.