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Armed Forces Discipline Act 1971

Miscellaneous provisions - Repeals, amendments, and savings

208: Repeals, amendments, and savings

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"Changes to old laws and what happens to things already done under them"

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You will find changes to some laws in the Schedule 7. These changes happen because of this Act. Some laws are listed in Schedule 8 and they will be repealed. You might wonder what happens to things that were done under the old laws. These things will still be valid under the new Act. This includes appointments and contracts that were already in place. If something was already happening under an old law, it can still continue under the new Act. This means that matters and proceedings that started under the old law can still be finished under the new Act. Some old UK laws, like the Naval Discipline Act 1957, will no longer apply in New Zealand when this Act starts.

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Part 11Miscellaneous provisions
Repeals, amendments, and savings

208Repeals, amendments, and savings

  1. The enactments specified in Schedule 7 are hereby consequentially amended in the manner indicated in that schedule.

  2. The enactments specified in Schedule 8 are hereby repealed.

  3. All districts, offices, appointments, commissions, Proclamations, Orders in Council, regulations, orders, warrants, contracts, instruments, and all acts of authority that originated under or by virtue of any of the enactments repealed by this section, and are subsisting or in force at the commencement of this Act, shall continue for the purposes of this Act as fully and effectually as if they had originated under the corresponding provisions of this Act, and accordingly shall, where necessary, be deemed to have so originated; but so that in the case of current appointments for specified terms each such term shall be computed from the date of its commencement.

  4. Notwithstanding the repeal of any enactment by subsection (2), all matters and proceedings commenced under any such enactment, and pending or in progress at the commencement of this Act, may be continued and completed under this Act.

  5. The Naval Discipline Act 1957 of the Parliament of the United Kingdom, and all Acts amending or continuing that Act, and all rules and regulations made under that Act, shall at the commencement of this Act cease to have effect as part of the law of New Zealand.