Section 3
11.Section 3 ensures that the removal (by section 1) of the power to make an Order in Council does not affect the validity of the 1999 Order made under that power, and does not retrospectively affect things done under the 1999 Order (such as particular payments made). Subsections (2) and (3) ensure that the 1999 Order remains in force, governing the arrangements for payments to registered political parties, until such time as the Parliament first exercises its new power (under the replacement section 97) to make new arrangements by resolution. The coming into force of that first resolution will then automatically revoke the 1999 Order.
