any person who was, immediately before the commencement of this Act, registered under any enactment repealed by this Act in respect of any maternity home, shall be deemed for all the purposes of this Act to be as from the commencement of this Act a person duly registered thereunder in respect of that home; and

any exemption of a hospital or institution granted under paragraph (a) of subsection (1) of section fifteen of the M1Midwives and Maternity Homes (Scotland) Act, 1927, which was in force immediately before the commencement of this Act, shall be deemed to have been granted under section six of this Act.