New South Wales Consolidated Acts

LOCAL GOVERNMENT (AREAS) ACT 1948 - SECT 25

25 Repeals and savings

(1) The Acts mentioned in the Fourth Schedule are, to the extent therein expressed, hereby repealed.

(2) The repeal by this Act of any enactment shall not, as far as relates to any previous or pending transaction or matter, affect property vested, acts and things validated or authorised, rights powers and protection acquired, liabilities incurred, or indemnities given by or under the repealed enactment.

(3) The repeal by this Act of any enactment shall not affect the status of any road, highway, street, square, lane, court, alley or other public thoroughfare or place which prior to the appointed day was or was deemed to be a public way within the meaning of the Sydney Corporation Act 1932 , and every such public way shall be a public road within the meaning of and subject to the provisions of the Principal Act.

(4) Notwithstanding any repeal effected by this section, all regulations, by-laws, proclamations and notifications made under any enactment so repealed and in force immediately before the appointed day shall continue in force to the extent to which such continuance is necessary for the purpose of carrying out or giving effect to the tenor of any proclamation made by the Governor under paragraph (q1) of subsection one of section twenty-one of the Principal Act; and regulations, by-laws, proclamations and notifications so continued in force shall be deemed to have been made under the Principal Act, and in the case of regulations and by-laws shall be deemed to be ordinances made under that Act.

(5) Where in any Act, ordinance, regulation, by-law or instrument reference is made to the provisions of any Act repealed by this Act such reference shall be deemed to be a reference to the corresponding provisions (if any) of the Principal Act.

(6) Every public market for the sale of any article of the food of man or of general merchandise established under any enactment repealed by this section and in use immediately before the appointed day shall be deemed to be a public market provided by the council of the united area constituted by the union of the areas and parts of areas specified and described in the first group in the First Schedule and to be under the control and management of such council and the provisions of Part 20 of the Principal Act shall apply to and in respect of such market:
Provided that with respect to any such market which is a public market for the sale of fish nothing contained in this subsection or in the Principal Act shall affect any of the provisions of the Fisheries and Oyster Farms Act 1935 , as amended by subsequent Acts, or the regulations made thereunder or take away powers vested in any person or body by that Act as amended or by such regulations.

(7) This section shall not limit any saving in this Act or the Interpretation Act of 1897, as amended by subsequent Acts.