8. Repeals.
Amendments (requiring commencement) by Sch. 1 to the Merchant Shipping (Registration of Ships) Act 2014 (No. 43), published 25 December 2014.
(1) The enactments mentioned in the First Schedule to this Act are hereby repealed to the extent specified in the third column of that Schedule.
(2) Notwithstanding the repeal of the enactments mentioned in the First Schedule to this Act, then, unless the contrary otherwise appears,
(a) any order, licence, certificate, bye-law, rule or regulation made or granted under any such enactment shall continue in force as if it had been made or granted under this Act;
(b) any officer appointed, any body elected or constituted, and any office established under any enactment hereby repealed shall continue and be deemed to have been appointed, elected, constituted, or established, as the case may be, under this Act;
(c) any document referring to any Act or enactment hereby repealed shall be construed to refer to this Act or to the corresponding enactment of this Act.