Section 245 — Land Transfer Act 1952: Repeals and savings

245 Repeals and savings (1) The enactments specified in Schedule 8 to this Act are hereby repealed to the extent therein indicated. (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of any provision by this Act shall not affect any document made or any thing whatsoever done under the provision so repealed or under any corresponding former provision, and every such document or thing, so far as it is subsisting or in force at the time of the repeal and could have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) Any provision of the Land Transfer (Hawke's Bay) Act 1931 , the Maori Land Act 1931, the Land Act 1948 , or any other enactment that prevailed over the provisions of any enactment hereby repealed shall in like manner prevail over the corresponding provisions of this Act. (4) In the case of any mortgage executed prior to the 1st day of January 1903 (being the date of commencement of the Land Transfer Amendment Act 1902), the provisions of the Acts in force on the commencement of the Land Transfer Act 1908 in respect to that mortgage shall continue to apply to that mortgage in so far as those provisions conflict with the provisions of this Act. (5) In the case of any submortgage executed prior to the 1st day of March 1914 (being the date of commencement of the Land Transfer Amendment Act 1913), the provisions of the Acts in force when that submortgage was registered shall continue to apply to that submortgage in so far as those provisions conflict with the provisions of this Act. (6) Where in any document made before the commencement of this Act reference is made to any former Land Transfer Act, that reference shall be construed and shall operate as if it had been made to this Act, or to such of the provisions of this Act as correspond to those of the Act so referred to. Subsection (1) was amended, as from 29 September 1961, by section 4(1)(a) Land Transfer Amendment Act 1961 (1961 No 9) by substituting the words “ Schedule 8 ” for the words “ Schedule 7 ” .