9(1)If—
(a)no date has been appointed before the commencement of this Act as the date on which the repeal by Schedule 4 to the [1974 c. 40.] Control of Pollution Act 1974 of the provisions of the [1960 c. 34.] Radioactive Substances Act 1960 specified in sub-paragraph (2) below (in this paragraph referred to as “the 1974 repeal”) is to come into force, or
(b)a date has been appointed which is later than that commencement,
Schedule 3 to this Act shall have effect until the appointed day with the modifications specified in sub-paragraph (3) below.
(2)The provisions of the Radioactive Substances Act 1960 referred to in sub-paragraph (1)(a) above are—
(a)in paragraph 3 of Schedule 1, the words “seventy-nine”, and
(b)paragraph 8A of Schedule 1.
(3)The modifications of Schedule 3 to this Act referred to in sub-paragraph (1) above are as follows—
(a)in paragraph 1 after “48” there shall be inserted “79”, and
(b)after paragraph 2 there shall be inserted—
“2ASections 2, 5 and 7 of the Rivers (Prevention of Pollution) Act 1961.”
(4)In this paragraph “the appointed day” means—
(a)in the case mentioned in paragraph (a) of sub-paragraph (1) above, such day as may be appointed by the Secretary of State by order, and
(b)in the case mentioned in paragraph (b) of that sub-paragraph, the date appointed as the day on which the 1974 repeal is to come into force.