Guardianship of Minors Act 1971

18 Consequential amendments, repeals and savings

(1) The enactments specified in Schedule 1 to this Act shall have effect subject to "the amendments there specified, being amendments consequential on this Act.

(2) The enactments specified in Schedule 2 to this Act are hereby repealed to the extent specified in the third column of that Schedule.

(3) Any application, order or other thing made, done or having effect under or for the purposes of an enactment repealed by this Act and pending or in force immediately before the commencement of this Act shall be deemed to have been made or done under or for the purposes of the corresponding enactment in this Act; and any proceeding or other thing begun under any enactment so repealed may be continued under this Act as if begun thereunder.

(4) So much of any document as refers expressly or by implication to any enactment repealed by this Act shall, if and so far as the nature of the subject-matter of the document permits, be construed as referring to this Act or the corresponding enactment therein, as the case may require.

(5) Nothing in this section shall be taken as prejudicing the general application of section 38 of the [1889 c. 63.] Interpretation Act 1889 with regard to the effect of repeals.