1.—(1) These regulations may be cited as the National Assistance (Adaptation of Enactments) Regulations, 1950, and shall come into operation on the fourteenth day after the day on which they were approved by Parliament.

(2) The Interpretation Act, 1889, applies to the interpretation of these regulations as it applies to the interpretation of an Act of Parliament.

(3) References in these regulations to the provisions of any enactment shall be construed as references to those provisions as amended or applied by any subsequent enactment.

2.  The enactments specified in the schedule to these regulations shall be adapted in the manner therein provided.