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Clause 101, page 78, line 42, at end insert:
("(3) In so far as any provision in an order or regulation made under any enactment repealed by this Act could have been made under a corresponding enactment in this Act, or, in the case of a provision in a Milk and Dairies Order, under an enactment in this Act relating to Milk and Dairies Regulations, it shall not be invalidated by this repeal, but shall have effect as if it had been made under that corresponding, or other, enactment in this Act, and may be amended, varied, re-
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voked or enforced accordingly, and any person who is guilty of a contravention of, or non-compliance with, any such provision shall be guilty of an offence under this Act.")
VISCOUNT GAGEMy Lords, this Amendment and the next two Amendments are little more than drafting. The clause which they amend is the repeal clause of the Bill and contains the usual transitional provisions for keeping alive regulations, orders, etc., made under the repealed Acts pending the making of fresh ones under the Bill. The effect is to make it clearer than it is under the Bill as drafted that, firstly, the existing Milk and Dairies Orders will be kept alive, and secondly, that the usual power of amending and revoking these regulations and orders is maintained. The first of the Amendments also provides as a transitional measure that the penalties laid down by the Bill in Clause 9 are to apply to breaches of existing orders and regulations. I beg to move.
§ Moved, That this House doth agree with the Commons in the said Amendment.—(Viscount Gage.)
§ On Question, Motion agreed to.