12Short title, repeal, extent and commencement
(1)This Act may be cited as the Rivers (Prevention of Pollution) Act, 1951.
(2)The enactments specified in the Third Schedule to this Act are hereby repealed (to the extent specified in the third column of that Schedule.
(3)This Act shall not extend to Scotland except in so far as it repeals the Rivers Pollution Prevention (Border Councils) Act, 1898, and shall not extend to Northern Ireland.
(4)Except as otherwise provided in this Act, this Act shall come into force at the expiration of two months beginning with the date of its passing :
Provided that in any area which at the expiration of those two months is included neither in a river board area nor in an excluded area this Act shall come into force on the day on which the area is first included in a river board area.