New Towns Act 1981

Section 81.

SCHEDULE 11Saving and Transitional Provisions

General

1Where any period of time specified in or under an enactment repealed by this Act is current at the commencement of this Act, this Act has effect as if the corresponding provision had been in force when the period begun to run.

2(1)Any provision of this Act relating to anything done or required or authorised to be done under or by reference to that provision or any other provision of this Act shall (subject to paragraphs 3 to 5 below) have effect as if any reference to that provision or that other provision, as the case may be, included a reference to the corresponding provision of the enactments repealed by this Act.

(2)Where the repealed provision was itself a re-enactment of an earlier provision the reference shall extend in the same way to that earlier provision and so on.

Advances to Commission and to development corporations under previous enactments

3For the purposes of section 58(6) above—

(b)any such advance made before the commencement of this Act ment of the [1965 c. 59.] New Towns Act 1965 under section 3(2) of the [1959 c. 62.] New Towns Act 1959, or

(a)any advance to the Commission made before the commence-under section 42(5) of that Act of 1965,

shall continue to be regarded as having been made under that section 3(2), or that section 42(5), as the case may be, and not under that section 58(6) (which corresponds to those provisions).

4For the purposes of section 60 above—

(a)any advance to a development corporation made before the commencement of the [1965 c. 59.] New Towns Act 1965 under section 12(1) of the [1946 c. 68.] New Towns Act 1946, or

(b)any such advance made before the commencement of this Act under section 42(1) of that Act of 1965,

shall continue to be regarded as having been made under that section 12(1), or that section 42(1), as the case may be, and not under section 58(1) above (which corresponds to those provisions).

5For the purposes of section 60 above—

(a)any advance to the Commission made before the commencement of the New Towns Act 1965 under section 3(1) of the [1959 c. 62.] New Towns Act 1959, or

(b)any such advance made before the commencement of this Act under section 42(4) of that Act of 1965,

shall continue to be regarded as having been made under that section 3(1), or that section 42(4), as the case may be, and not under section 58(5) above (which corresponds to those provisions).

Saving as to certain provisions relating to housing

6Notwithstanding the repeal by this Act of subsections (2) and (5) of section 4 of the [1959 c. 62.] New Towns Act 1959 those subsections have such effect as they had immediately before the commencement of this Act; and the power conferred by virtue of sections 152(3) and 153(4) of the [1980 c. 51.] Housing Act 1980 to bring into operation Schedule 26 to that Act (repeals) has effect as if that Schedule included a reference to this paragraph.

[1961 c. 33.] Land Compensation Act 1961

7Notwithstanding the repeal by this Act of the [1966 c. 44.] New Towns Act 1966, the amendments made by section 2 of and Part I of the Schedule to that Act to the Land Compensation Act 1961 continue to have effect as provided by that section 2.

National Loans Act 1968

8Section 24(2) of and Part I of Schedule 6 to the [1968 c. 13.] National Loans Act 1968 continue to have such effect in relation to sections 44(2) and (4), 45(2) and 46(5) of the. New Towns Act 1965 as they had immediately before the commencement of this Act.

Housing Finance Act 1972

9Section 108(4) of and Part III of Schedule 11 to the [1972 c. 47.] Housing Finance Act 1972 continue to have such effect in relation to section 56(2) of and Schedule 10 to the New Towns Act 1965 as they had immediately before the commencement of this Act.

10Nothing in this Act affects the operation of the savings made—

(a)in Part III of Schedule 11 to the Housing Finance Act 1972, in relation to its repeal (except as respects hostels) of paragraph 4(1), part of paragraph 4(4) and paragraph 6(2) of Schedule 10 to the New Towns Act 1965 ;

(b)in Part V of that Schedule to that Act of 1972, in relation to its repeal (so far as respects hostels) of those provisions of that Act of 1965.

Land Compensation Act 1973

11Nothing in this Act affects the operation of the savings made in sections 72(6) and 86 of and Schedule 3 to the [1973 c. 26.] Land Compensation Act 1973 in relation to the repeal of section 11 of and paragraph 7 of Schedule 6 to the [1965 c. 59.] New Towns Act 1965.

[1975 c. 24.] House of Commons Disqualification Act 1975

12Notwithstanding the repeal by this Act of the [1976 c. 68.] New Towns (Amendment) Act 1976, the amendment made by section 14(4) of that Act to the House of Commons Disqualification Act 1975 continues to have effect.

Schedule 25 to the [1980 c. 65.] Local Government, Planning and Land Act 1980

13(1)Nothing in—

(a)paragraphs (a) and (b) of section 4(5) above,

(b)section 17(3) above,

(c)section 37(6) above,

affects a transaction or purported disposal made before the coming into force of Part I of Schedule 25 to the Local Government, Planning and Land Act 1980.

(2)In relation to any transaction or purported disposal made before the coming into force of Part I of that Schedule, for the words in sections 5(4) and 37(5) above " and such a person shall not be concerned to see or enquire whether a direction under that subsection has been given or complied with " substitute " unless that person had actual notice of that direction ".

(3)The repeal by this Act of paragraph 5(2) of that Schedule does not affect the validity by virtue of that sub-paragraph of any consent given before the commencement of this Act.