s 59 Amendments, transitional provisions, savings and repeals.
(1) The enactments mentioned in Schedule 3 to this Act shall have effect subject to the amendments there specified (being minor amendments and amendments consequential on the preceding provisions of this Act). (2) the Secretary of State may by order make such modifications of local Acts, and of subordinate legislation (within the meaning of the Interpretation Act 1978), as appear to them to be necessary or expedient in consequence of the provisions of this Act. (3) The transitional provisions and savings contained in Schedule 4 to this Act shall have effect; but nothing in this subsection shall be taken as prejudicing the operation of sections 16 and 17 of the said Act of 1978 (which relate to the effect of repeals). (4) The enactments mentioned in Schedule 5 to this Act (which include some that are spent or no longer of practical utility) are hereby repealed to the extent specified in the third column of that Schedule.