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(1) These Regulations may be cited as the Celluloid and Cinematograph Film Act 1922 (Repeals and Modifications) Regulations 1974 and shall come into operation on 1st January 1975.
(2) The Interpretation Act 1889 shall apply to the interpretation of these Regulations as it applies to the interpretation of an Act of Parliament.
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In the Celluloid and Cinematograph Film Act 1922 (“the 1922 Act”)—
(a) sections 1(4), 3(3), 5 to 7 and Schedule 2 are hereby repealed; and
(b) in sections 3(1) and (2), for the words from “liable” to the end of the subsection there shall be substituted in each subsection the words “guilty of an offence”.
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(1) These Regulations shall not affect the validity of anything done under the provisions of the 1922 Act before the coming into operation of the Regulations.
(2) Orders made under section 1(4) of the 1922 Act and in force immediately before the coming into operation of these Regulations shall continue in force notwithstanding the repeal of that subsection.
(3) Where any of the said provisions prescribes a penalty for or a defence to an offence of any kind, that penalty or defence shall, notwithstanding these Regulations, continue to apply to offences of that kind committed or alleged to have been committed before 1st January 1975.
Signed by order of the Secretary of State.
Harold Walker
Joint Parliamentary Under Secretary of State
Department of Employment
5th November 1974