Section 30 — Adoption Act 1955: Repeals and savings

30 Repeals and savings (1) The enactments specified in Schedule 2 to this Act are hereby repealed. (2) Without limiting the provisions of the Acts Interpretation Act 1924, it is hereby declared that the repeal of any provision by this Act shall not affect any document made or any thing whatsoever done under the provision so repealed or under any corresponding former provision, and every such document or thing, so far as it is subsisting or in force at the time of the repeal and could have been made or done under this Act, shall continue and have effect as if it had been made or done under the corresponding provision of this Act and as if that provision had been in force when the document was made or the thing was done. (3) All applications, matters, and proceedings commenced under any such enactment and pending or in progress at the commencement of this Act may, at the discretion of the Court, be continued and completed— (a) Under this Act; or (b) Under the said enactments in all respects as if the said enactments continued in force and as if this Act had not been passed.