(1)The enactments specified in Schedule 4 to this Act shall be amended in accordance with the provisions of that Schedule.
(2)The enactments specified in Schedule 5 to this Act (which include some spent enactments) are hereby repealed to the extent specified in the third column of that Schedule subject, in the case of the repeals included in Part I, to the saving at the end of that Part.
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C1The text of ss. 2, 3, 4(2), 5, 6(1)(2)(3)(c)(4)(5)(6), 7, 8, 10–12, 15, 16, 18, 19, 20(3), 21–23, 24(2), 28(1) is in the form in which it was originally enacted: it was not reproduced in Statutes in Force and does not reflect any amendments or repeals which may have been made prior to 1.2.1991.
(1)Subject to subsections (4) and (5) below, this Act shall come into force on such date as the Secretary of State may appoint by order made by statutory instrument.
(2)Different dates may be so appointed for different provisions or for different purposes.
(3)A provision brought into force by an order under subsection (1) above shall have effect subject to such supplementary provisions (which may include saving and transitional provisions) as may be specified in the order.
(4)The following provisions of this Act shall come into force on the day it is passed, namely, sections 1, 7, 15, 16, 17, 19, 20, 21, 22, 25, 26, 27, 28(2), this section, section 30 and Schedule 3.
(5)The repeals contained in Schedule 5 to this Act shall come into force in accordance with the provisions at the end of that Schedule.
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C2Power of appointment conferred by s. 29(1) fully exercised: S.I. 1981/1503 and 1982/497
This Act may be cited as the Armed Forces Act 1981.