
1 

(1) These Regulations may be cited as the 
Agriculture (Safety, Health and Welfare Provisions) Act 1956 (Repeals and
Modifications) Regulations 1975 and shall come
into operation (except as to Regulation 3
and Schedule 2)on 17th February
1975 and as to Regulation 3
and Schedule 2 on 1st April
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.
2 
The provisions of the 
Agriculture (Safety, Health and Welfare Provisions) Act 1956
(“the 1956 Act”) mentioned in column
1 of Schedule 1 to these Regulations are hereby
repealed to the extent specified in column 2 of that Schedule.
3 
The provision of the 1956 Act mentioned in 
column 1 of Schedule 2 to these Regulations
is hereby repealed to the extent specified in column 2 of that Schedule.
4 
The provisions of the 1956 Act mentioned in 
column 1 of Schedule 3 to these Regulations
shall have effect subject to the modifications specified in column 2 of that
Schedule.
5 

(1) These Regulations shall not affect the
validity of anything done before the coming into operation of the Regulations
under any provision of an enactment repealed or modified by the Regulations;
and anything which at the coming into operation of the Regulations is in process
of being done for the purposes of that provision (including in particular
any legal proceedings) by or in relation to an inspector appointed under the
1956 Act may, so far as may be necessary for the purposes of or in consequence
of the provisions of the Regulations, be continued by or in relation to an
inspector appointed by the Minister or the Secretary of State under 
section 19 of the 1974 Act.
(2) Without prejudice to 
paragraph (1) of this Regulation, any exemption,
approval, authorisation, certificate, notice or direction granted or given
or other thing whatsoever done, or having effect as if granted, given or done,
for the purposes of any provision modified by these Regulations, shall if
in force at the coming into operation of these Regulations, continue in force
and have effect as if granted, given or done in accordance with that provision
as so modified.
(3) Regulations and orders made or having
effect under any provision repealed by these Regulations and in force immediately
before the coming into operation of these Regulations shall continue in force
notwithstanding the repeal of that provision.
(4) Where any provision repealed by these
Regulations provides a defence against a charge of any kind or prescribes
a penalty for an offence of any kind, then notwithstanding these Regulations,
that defence shall continue to be available in respect of offences alleged
to have been committed, and that penalty shall continue to apply to offences
committed, before the date on which the repeal of that provision takes effect.

In Witness whereof the Official Seal of the Minister of Agriculture,
Fisheries and Food is hereunto affixed on 16th January 1975.
Frederick Peart
Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food
William Ross
Secretary of State for Scotland
17th January 1975
SCHEDULE 1
Regulation 2

Repeals taking effect on 17th February 1975.

Column 1 Column
2

Provision Extent of repeal


Section 1. Subsections (1) to (5); and 
subsection (7).
Section 2.
 Subsection
(2).
Section 4.
 The whole section.
Section 6.
 Subsections
(2) and (3).


Section 7. 
Subsections (1) and (2).


Section 8. 
The whole section.

Section 10. 
The whole section.

Section 12. 
The whole section.

Section 13. 
Subsection (2).
Section 14.
 The whole section.
Section 15.
 The whole section.
Section 17.
 The whole section.
Section 18.
 The whole section.
Section 19.
 The whole section.
Section 20.
 The whole section.
Section 21.
 The whole section.
Section 25.
 Subsection
(2); in subsection
(4) the word; “any regulations
made under section one
of this Act or of”; and subsection
(7).

SCHEDULE 2
Regulation 3

Repeal taking effect on 1st April 1975.

Column
1 Column 2
Provision Extent of repeal

Section 13. 
Subsection (1).

SCHEDULE 3
Regulation 4

Modifications taking effect on 17th February 1975.


Column 1 Column 2
Provision 
Modification

Section 24. 
For the definition of “inspector” there shall be
substituted the following definition:—“

 `inspector'
means an inspector appointed by the appropriate Minister
under section 19 of the 
Health and Safety at Work etc. Act 1974;
”

Section 25. 
In subsection (4)
the words “of this Act” shall be substituted for
the word “thereof”.
