The Secretary of State for the Environment Order 1970

5.—(1) The provisions of Schedule 3 to this Order shall have effect for the purpose of making consequential amendments in the enactments there mentioned or otherwise adapting them to the provisions of this Order.

(2) Subject to the provisions of Schedule 3 to this Order, where in connection with any functions of the Minister of Housing and Local Government transferred by this Order any enactment or instrument provides for anything to be done by or in relation to both that Minister and a Secretary of State, it shall be read as providing for it to be done by or in relation to both the Secretary of State for the time being discharging those functions and such other Secretary of State (if any) as may be concerned; and similarly with things to be done by or in relation to both the Minister of Public Building and Works or Minister of Transport and a Secretary of State.

(3) The enactments mentioned in Schedule 4 to this Order are hereby repealed to the extent specified in column 2 of the Schedule; but, without prejudice to the operation in relation to this repeal of any provision of the Interpretation Act 1889,—

(a) the repeal by this Order of any enactment effecting or relating to any transfer of functions, property, rights or liabilities shall not affect any transfer made before the coming into operation of this Order nor the operation in connection therewith of any provision made by or under that enactment; and

(b) the repeal by this Order of any enactment relating to evidence shall not affect the operation of that enactment in relation to documents made or issued before the coming into operation of this Order.