Article 2

Any authority, certificate, determination, direction, exemption, permit or prescription given or made for the purpose of a provision specified in the second schedule hereto, shall, if in force at the commencement of the Act and so far as it could have been given or made for the purposes of the Miscellaneous Mines (General) Regulations, 1956 (whether by that instrument or an instrument to the like effect), have effect as if it had been so given or made.