9. Notwithstanding the commencement of section 144(2) and schedule 5 of the Act, so far as relating to the partial repeal of paragraph 10(h) of the Eighth Schedule of the Opencast Coal Act 1958, paragraph 10(h) of that Eighth Schedule continues to have effect without that partial repeal in relation to each local authority until the day on which the first regulations made by the authority in question under section 115(1) of the Act come into force.