Expiring Laws Continuance Act, 1922

Continuance of Acts in Schedules.

1.—(1) The Acts mentioned in the First , Second and Third Schedules to this Act shall to the extent specified in Column 3 of those Schedules be continued until the 31st day of December 1923 and shall then expire unless further continued.

(2) The Acts mentioned in the Fourth Schedule to this Act shall to the extent specified in Column 3 of that Schedule be continued until the 31st day of December 1923 and shall then expire unless further continued and the continuance effected by this sub-section shall be retrospective to the date on which such Acts expired so as to validate all acts and things purported to be done under such Acts respectively since that date but not so as to make illegal any act done between the date on which the said Acts expired and the date of the passing of this Act which would not have been illegal if this sub-section were not retrospective.

(3) Any unrepealed enactments amending or affecting the enactments continued by this Act shall, in so far as they are temporary in their duration, be continued in like manner whether they are mentioned in the Schedule to this Act or not.