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(1)This Act may be cited as the Diseases of Fish Act 1983.
(2)This Act (except this section) shall come into force on such day as the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food and the Secretary of State acting jointly may by order made by statutory instrument appoint, and an order under this subsection may appoint different days for different provisions or different purposes.
(3)An order under subsection (2) above may include such transitionals or savings as appear to that Minister and the Secretary of State to be necessary or expedient in connection with the provisions brought into force by the order, but nothing shall be so included if it would conflict with subsection (4) or (5) below.
(4)The definitions of " infected " and " infected waters " contained in section 10(1) of the 1937 Act immediately before the coming into force of section 4(6) above shall continue to have effect on and after its coming into force (subject to any order made, after its coming into force, under section 13 of the 1937 Act).
(5)The coming into force of sub-paragraph (2) of paragraph 6 of the Schedule to this Act shall not affect the punishment for an offence committed before its coming into force.
(6)This Act does not extend to Northern Ireland.
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