SCHEDULES

Section 35(1).

SCHEDULE 6U.K. Transitional Provisions and Savings

Part IU.K.

General ProvisionsU.K.

1(1)In so far as any order, rule, regulation, appointment, approval or other thing made or done, or deemed to be made or done, under an enactment repealed by this Act could have been made or done under a corresponding provision of this Act, it shall not be invalidated by the repeal but shall have effect as if made or done under that provision.U.K.

(2)Anything begun under an enactment repealed by this Act may be continued under the corresponding provision of this Act as if begun under that provision.

(3)References in this Act to things done, suffered or occurring in the past shall, so far as the context requires for the continuity of operation between enactments repealed by this Act and the corresponding provisions of this Act, be construed as including references to things done, suffered or occurring before the commencement of this Act.

(4)Where any instrument or document refers expressly or by implication to an enactment repealed by this Act, the reference shall, except where the context otherwise requires, be construed as, or as including, a reference to the corresponding provision of this Act.

2(1)Paragraph 1 above applies in particular to any claim for, or award of, supplementary benefit made before the commencement of this Act and to anything done or occurring in, or for the purposes of, adjudication proceedings before that day.E+W+S

(2)Any question as to entitlement to, or the amount of, any supplementary benefit, and any other question with respect to supplementary benefit, for any period shall be determined in accordance with the provisions with respect to those matters in force during that period.

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Part IIU.K.

Specific ProvisionsU.K.(including some retained from previous Acts)U.K.

4E+W+SThe following enactments as having effect at the commencement of this Act shall, subject to the amendments therein specified in Schedule 7 to this Act, continue to have effect as amended by section 39 of, and Schedule 6 to, the M1Supplementary Benefit Act 1966, notwithstanding the repeal by this Act of the said Act of 1966:—

• M2the Polish Resettlement Act 1947.

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5U.K.Any enactment or instrument that is to be construed in accordance with section 2(3) of the M3Supplementary Benefit Act 1966, as having effect in accordance with the Secretary of State for Social Services Order 1968, shall continue to be so construed notwithstanding the repeal by this Act of the said Act of 1966.

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8(1)Any proceedings for the recovery of a sum which, if the M4Supplementary Benefit Act 1966 had not been passed, could have been taken by the National Assistance Board may be taken [F4by the Secretary of State].E+W+S

(2)Any payments ordered in proceedings continued or begun by virtue of sub-paragraph (1) above or of paragraph 7 of Schedule 7 to the M5Supplementary Benefit Act 1966 which, if that Act had not been passed, would have been ordered to be made to the National Assistance Board shall be ordered to be made to the Secretary of State.

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