PART IIITransitional Provisions
29In this Part of this Schedule " the operative date" means 1st January 1978.
30Anything begun before the operative date under any provision of Part I of the 1972 Act may be continued under that Part of that Act as amended, if and in so far as that provision remains in force (whether or not in the same section or subsection of the Act).
31Any reference in Part I of the 1972 Act as amended to things done, suffered or occurring in the past shall, so far as the context requires for the purpose of continuity of operation between provisions of the Act as in force before the operative date and the same or corresponding provisions in force on or after that date, be construed as including a reference to things done, suffered or occurring before that date.
32Any Treasury order or Commissioners' regulations made before the operative date under powers conferred by a provision of Part I of the 1972 Act shall continue in force and have effect, as from that date, as if made under the corresponding power conferred by Part I of the Act as amended, subject however to the exercise of any power in that Part of that Act to vary or revoke the orders or regulations.
33References in any documents to provisions of Part I of the 1972 Act as in force before the operative date shall (if and so far as the context admits) be construed on or after that date as references to the corresponding provisions of that Part as amended.
34The provisions of this Part of this Schedule shall not be taken as prejudicing the operation of section 38 of the [1889 c. 63.] Interpretation Act 1889 (effect of repeals).