s 12 Repeals and consequential provisions.
(1) The enactments specified in Schedule 2 to this Act are hereby repealed to the extent specified in the third column of that Schedule. (2) In section 24(1) of the Pharmacy Act 1954, for the definition of “the Pharmacy Acts” there shall be substituted the following definition— “ the Pharmacy Acts ” means the Act of 1933, the Pharmacy Act 1954, sections 77 and 84(1) of the Medicines Act 1968 and the Poisons Act 1972, and includes rules made under Part III of the Act of 1933 or under section 7 of the Poisons Act 1972. ” (3) Nothing in subsection (2) above or in section 13 of this Act shall be taken to exclude the general application of this Act of sections 16(1) and 17(2)(a) of the Interpretation Act 1978 (which relates to repeals).