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ChapterShort titleExtent of repeal
25 & 26 Vict. c. 97.The Salmon Fisheries (Scotland) Act 1862.Section 13.
38 & 39 Vict. c. 55.The Public Health Act 1875.Section 148, but not so as to affect any agreement in force under that section.
55 & 56 Vict. c.55The Burgh Police (Scotland) Act 1892.Sections 107 to 109.
In section 110, the words from “and may place” to “or nuisance.”
Sections 111 to 114.
Section 116.
58 & 59 Vict. c. 42.The Sea Fisheries Regulation (Scotland) Act 1895.Section 8(1)(f).
60 & 61 Vict. c. 38.The Public Health (Scotland) Act 1897.In section 39, the first paragraph.
3 Edw. 7. c. 33.The Burgh Police (Scotland) Act 1903.Section 23.
In section 24, the words “the immediately preceding section o r under”.
6 Edw. 7. c. 14.The Alkali, &c. Works Regulation Act 1906.Sections 3, 4, 5 and 8.
In section 9(1) the words “a cement work, or a smelting work”.
In section 11(b) the words “or with the treatment of alkali waste”.
Section 12(1)(d).
Sections 14, 15 and 17.
In section 18, in subsection (1) the words “other than an offence against a special rule” and subsection (4).
Section 19.
In section 20 the words “other than an offence against a special rule”.
In section 22(1) the words from “or that any alkali waste is deposited” to “contravention of this Act”.
In section 28, in paragraph (b) the words “offences against special rules and” and paragraph (c).
13 & 14 Geo. 5. c. 16.The Salmon and Freshwater Fisheries Act 1923.In section 9(5) the words from “and section 22(1)(a)” onwards.
24 & 25 Geo. 5. c. 40.The Administration of Justice (Appeals) Act 1934.In the Schedule the entry amending section 17(5) of the Alkali Act.
26 Geo. 5 & 1 Edw. 8. c. 49.The Public Health Act 1936.Sections 72 to 77, 79, 80 and 259(2).
1 Edw. 8 and 1 Geo. 6. c. 5.The Trunk Roads Act 1936.Section 6(6).
1 Edw. 8 and 1 Geo. 6. c. 40.The Public Health (Drainage of Trade Premises) Act 1937.Section 2(4), 3(2) and 4(1) to(3).
In section 7(1), the proviso.
Section 11.
In section 14(1) the definition of “interested body”.
8 & 9 Geo. 6. c. 42.The Water Act 1945.Section 18.
14 & 15 Geo. 6. c. 64.The Rivers (Prevention of Pollution) Act 1951.The whole Act.
14 & 15 Geo. 6. c. 66.The Rivers (Prevention of Pollution) (Scotland) Act 1951.The whole Act except sections 1, 6(1), 7, 9, 10(1), 12(1) to (3)and (4)(a) and (c), 13, 16, 17, 18(1) to (3), 19, 32(1), in section 35(1) the definitions of “contravention”, “functions”, “land”, “local authority”, “local water authority”, “river purification authority”, “river purification board”, “stream” and “tidal waters”, section 36(1) and (5) and Schedule 4.
1 & 2 Eliz. 2. c. 26.The Local Government (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 1953.Section 8.
4 & 5 Eliz. 2. c. 52.The Clean Air Act 1956.In section 16(1), in the proviso, paragraph (i).
In section 25, paragraphs (a) and (b).
In section 26, the words “manufacturing process or”.
In Schedule 2, the amendments of sections 3, 8 and 18 of the Alkali Act.
7 & 8 Eliz. 2 c. 25.The Highways Act 1959.In section 228(9) the words “section one hundred and forty-eight of the Public Health Act 1875”.
8 & 9 Eliz. 2. c. 34.The Radioactive Substances Act 1960.In Schedule 1, in paragraph 3 the words “seventy-nine”, in paragraph 6 the word “eighteen” and paragraphs 7, 8A and 15.
8 & 9 Eliz. 2. c. 54.The Clean Rivers (Estuaries & Tidal Waters) Act 1960.The whole Act.
8 & 9 Eliz. 2. c. 68.The Noise Abatement Act 1960.The whole Act, but not so as to affect notices served by virtue of section 1 of the Act before the coming into force of section 58 of this Act.
9 & 10 Eliz. 2. c. 50.The Rivers (Prevention of Pollution) Act 1961.The whole Act except sections 10, 12, 13(1) and 15(1) and (3).
1961 c. 64.The Public Health Act 1961.Sections 55 to 58 and 63(5).
1963 c. 33.The London Government Act 1963.In section 40(4)(d), the reference to section 8 of the Local Govermnent (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 1953, and section 40(4)(g).
In Part I of Schedule 11, paragraphs 14, 16 and 32.
1963 c. 38.The Water Resources Act 1963.Sections 72 to 76.
In section 79, subsections (1), (2) and (7), in subsection (5) the words “by virtue of subsection (1) of this section or” and in subsection (8) the words from “(including” to “section)”.
In section 114, in subsection (1) the words from the first “or” to “section” and the words “or discharge”, and subsections (2) and (4)(a).
In section 115(1)(b) the words from “or” to “thereof”.
In section 135(8) the word “72”.
In Schedule 13, paragraphs 5, 6, 7, 11 and 14.
1965 c. 13.The Rivers (Prevention of Pollution) (Scotland) Act 1965.The whole Act except sections 10, 13(1), 15(1) and (4) and 17(1) to (3).
1965 c. 36.The Gas Act 1965.Section 4(5).
1966 c. 38.The Sea Fisheries Regulation Act 1966.Section 5(1)(c).
1967 c. 69.The Civic Amenities Act 1967.Section 23(6)(a).
1967 c. 80.The Criminal Justice Act 1967.In Schedule 3, the entry relating to section 114 of the Burgh Police (Scotland) Act 1892, in the entry relating to section 22 of the Public Health (Scotland) Act 1897, the words “(as extended by section 1(5) of the Noise Abatement Act 1960 )” and the entries relating to sections 76(3), 94(2) and 95(1) (both as originally enacted and as applied by section 16(1) of the Clean Air Act 1956) of the Public Health Act 1936 and section 27(1) and (2) of the Clean Air Act 1956.
1968 c. 41.The Countryside Act 1968.Section 22(6)(c) and (8).
1972 c. 21.The Deposit of Poisonous Waste Act 1972.The whole Act.
1972 c. 70.The Local Government Act 1972.Section 180(3)(d) and (g).
In section 236(2) the words “or 18”.
In Schedule 14 in paragraph 4 the words “79, 80” and paragraphs 5 to 8 and 49.
1973 c. 37.The Water Act 1973.Section 17(1) to (4).
Paragraph 5 of Schedule 2.
Paragraph 63 of Schedule 8.
1973 c. 65.The Local Government (Scotland) Act 1973.In section 135(3), the words from “and the said areas” to the end.
Section 136.
In Schedule 16, paragraphs 7 to 9.
In Schedule 28, paragraph 69.

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