The enactments specified in column 1 of Part III of Schedule 2 to this Act, which relate to the penalties or the maximum penalties for the offences mentioned in those enactments, shall be amended in accordance with the amendments specified in column 2 of that Part, which have the effect of altering the penalties on summary conviction of the said offences and placing the fines on a level on the standard scale; and in that Part column 3 shows the penalties or, as the case may be, maximum penalties resulting from the amendments.

Sub-paragraph (1) above does not affect the penalty which may be imposed in respect of an offence committed before 11th April 1983.