(1)The enactments specified in Schedule 1 to this Act shall have effect subject to the amendments there specified, being amendments consequential on this Act.
(2). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . F1
(3)Any application, order or other thing made, done or having effect under or for the purposes of an enactment repealed by this Act and pending or in force immediately before the commencement of this Act shall be deemed to have been made or done under or for the purposes of the corresponding enactment in this Act; and any proceeding or other thing begun under any enactment so repealed may be continued under this Act as if begun thereunder.
(4)So much of any document as refers expressly or by implication to any enactment repealed by this Act shall, if and so far as the nature of the subject-matter of the document permits, be construed as referring to this Act or the corresponding enactment therein, as the case may require.
(5)Nothing in this section shall be taken as prejudicing the general application of section 38 of the M1Interpretation Act 1889 with regard to the effect of repeals.
Textual Amendments
F1Ss. 18(2), 19 repealed by Statute Law (Repeals) Act 1977 (c. 18), Sch. 1 Pt. VII
Modifications etc. (not altering text)
C1The text of s. 18(1) is in the form in which it was originally enacted: it was not reproduced in Statutes in Force and does not reflect any amendments or repeals which may have been made prior to 1.2.1991.
Marginal Citations
Textual Amendments
F2Ss. 18(2), 19 repealed by Statute Law (Repeals) Act 1977 (c. 18), Sch. 1 Pt. VII
(1)This Act may be cited as the Guardianship of Minors Act 1971.
(2)In this Act [F3“actual custody”, as respects a child, means the actual possession of the person of the child, “legal custody” shall be construed in accordance with Part IV of the M2 Children Act 1975 and]“maintenance” includes education.
(3)References in this Act to any enactment are references thereto as amended, and include references thereto as applied, by any other enactment.
(4)This Act—
(a)so far as it amends the M3Maintenance Orders Act 1950, extends to Scotland and Northern Ireland;
(b). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . F4
but, save as aforesaid, extends to England and Wales only.
(5)This Act shall come into force at the expiration of the period of one month beginning with the day on which it is passed.
Textual Amendments
F3Words inserted by Domestic Proceedings and Magistrates' Courts Act 1978 (c. 22, SIF 49:3), s. 36(1)(c), Sch. 1
F4S. 20(4)(b) repealed by Statute Law (Repeals) Act 1977 (c. 18), Sch. 1 Pt. I
Marginal Citations
M21975 c. 72 (49:9).