Sch 5 para 9
(1) If— (a) no date has been appointed before the commencement of this Act as the date on which the repeal by Schedule 4 to the Control of Pollution Act 1974 of the provisions of the Radioactive Substances Act 1960 specified in sub-paragraph (2) below (in this paragraph referred to as “ the 1974 repeal ”) is to come into force, or (b) a date has been appointed which is later than that commencement, Schedule 3 to this Act shall have effect until the appointed day with the modifications specified in sub-paragraph (3) below. (2) The provisions of the Radioactive Substances Act 1960 referred to in sub-paragraph (1)(a) above are— (a) in paragraph 3 of Schedule 1, the words “seventy-nine”, and (b) paragraph 8A of Schedule 1. (3) The modifications of Schedule 3 to this Act referred to in sub-paragraph (1) above are as follows— (a) in paragraph 1 after “48” there shall be inserted “ 79 ” , and (b) after paragraph 2 there shall be inserted— (2A) Sections 2, 5 and 7 of the Rivers (Prevention of Pollution) Act 1961. (4) In this paragraph “ the appointed day ” means— (a) in the case mentioned in paragraph (a) of sub-paragraph (1) above, such day as may be appointed by the Secretary of State by order, and (b) in the case mentioned in paragraph (b) of that sub-paragraph, the date appointed as the day on which the 1974 repeal is to come into force.