Guardianship of Minors Act 1971

Supplementary

18 Consequential amendments, repeals and savings

(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(2) The enactments specified in Schedule 2 to this Act are hereby repealed to the extent specified in the third column of that Schedule.

(3) Any application, order or other thing made, done or having effect under or for the purposes of an enactment repealed by this Act and pending or in force immediately before the commencement of this Act shall be deemed to have been made or done under or for the purposes of the corresponding enactment in this Act; and any proceeding or other thing begun under any enactment so repealed may be continued under this Act as if begun thereunder.

(4) So much of any document as refers expressly or by implication to any enactment repealed by this Act shall, if and so far as the nature of the subject-matter of the document permits, be construed as referring to this Act or the corresponding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 [1889 c. 63.] Interpretation Act 1889 with regard to the effect of repeals.

19 Transitory provisions pending coming into force of s.1(2) of Administration of Justice Act 1970

Until the coming into force of section 1(2) of the [1970 c. 31.] Administration of Justice Act 1970 this Act shall have effect subject to the following modifications, that is to say—

(a) in section 6 after the words " High Court" there shall be inserted the words " in any division thereof ";

(b) after section 15(1) there shall be inserted the words " Any application under this Act to the High Court shall be made to the Chancery Division in such manner as may be prescribed by rules of court ";

(c) in subsection (1) of section 16 after the words " proceeded with " there shall be inserted the words " before a judge of the Chancery Division ", at the end of subsection (2) of that section there shall be added the words " and subject to rules of court any such appeal shall be heard by a judge of the Chancery Division in chambers or in court as he shall direct " and in subsection (3) of that section after the word " shall" there shall be inserted the words " in accordance with rules of court ";

(d) in section 17(1) after the words " High Court" there shall be inserted the words " or of any division thereof ".

20 Short title, interpretation, extent and commencement

(1) This Act may be cited as the Guardianship of Minors Act 1971.

(2) In this Act " 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 [1950 c. 37.] Maintenance Orders Act 1950, extends to Scotland and Northern Ireland;

(b) so far as it amends the [1955 c. 18.] Army Act 1955 and the [1955 c. 19.] Air Force Act 1955, extends to Northern Ireland,

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.