3Repeals, savings and transitional provisions

3 Repeals, savings and transitional provisions S. 3(1)(2) repealed by No. 32/2000 s. 18. (3) Except as in this Act expressly or by necessary implication provided— (a) all persons things and circumstances appointed or created by or under the **Adoption of Children Act 1964** or existing or continuing under that Act immediately before the commencement of this Act shall, under and subject to this Act, continue to have the same status, operation and effect as they respectively would have had if that Act had not been repealed; and (b) in particular and without affecting the generality of paragraph (a), such repeal shall not disturb the continuity of status, operation or effect of any rule, order, authority, application, decision, consent, bond, register, direction, liability or right made, affected, issued, granted, given, passed, accrued, incurred or acquired or existing or continuing by or under the **Adoption of Children Act 1964** before the commencement of this section. (4) Subject to this Act, sections 53 and 54 (other than subsection (4)) apply in relation to an adoption order made under, or continued in force by, any corresponding previous enactment as if this Act had been in force when the order was made and the order had been made under this Act. (5) In relation to a disposition of property by a person who, or by persons any of whom, died before the commencement of this section, an adoption order referred to in subsection (4) shall have the same effect as if this Act had not been passed. S. 3(6) repealed by No. 32/2000 s. 18. (7) Notwithstanding the repeal of the **Adoption of Children Act 1964**, that Act shall continue to apply to and in relation to arrangements and negotiations for the adoption of a child in respect of whom all consents necessary under that Act for the adoption have been obtained or have been dispensed with before the commencement of this section and to the making of orders for the adoption of any such child. No. 7147 s. 4.