# Prevention of Oil Pollution Act 1971, Section 33: Repeals and savings.


(1) The enactments specified in the Schedule to this Act are hereby repealed to the extent specified in the third column of that schedule.
(2) In so far as any instrument made or other thing done under any enactment repealed by this Act could have been made or done under any provision of this Act it shall have effect as if made or done under that provision; and references in any such instrument to any such enactment shall be construed as referring to the corresponding provision of this Act or, as the case may be, to this Act.
(3) Nothing in the foregoing provisions of this section shall be taken as prejudicing the operation of sections 16(1) and 17(2)(a) of the Interpretation Act 1978 (which relates to the effect of repeals).

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1971/60/section/33 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/prevention-of-oil-pollution-act-1971/section-33
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