This section and section 3 of this Act shall be read together with and deemed part of the Gaming Duties Act 1971 (in that section referred to as the principal Act).

Section 4(1) of the principal Act (as substituted by section 8(1) of the Finance Act 1977) is hereby amended by repealing paragraphs (a) and (b), and substituting the following paragraphs:

Section 3 of the principal Act is hereby amended by omitting from the definition of the term “gross investments” (as substituted by section 3(1) of the Gaming Duties Amendment Act 1976) the words “in respect of each race at every race meeting conducted by any racing club, means the total amount of betting”, and substituting the words “in relation to the races held on any day of a race meeting conducted by a racing club, means the total amount of betting in respect of any of those races (or any 2 or more of them)”.

This section and sections 5 to 7 of this Act shall be read together with and deemed part of the Racing Act 1971 (in those sections referred to as the principal Act).

Section 42(1) of the principal Act (as substituted by section 12(1) of the Racing Amendment Act 1980) is hereby amended by inserting, after the words “in respect of each race”, the words “or combination of races, as the case may be,”.

The said section 42(1) (as so substituted) is hereby amended by repealing paragraphs (b) and (c), and substituting the following paragraphs:

Section 42 of the principal Act (as so substituted) is hereby amended by repealing subsection (2), and substituting the following subsections:

Section 42(3) of the principal Act (as so substituted) is hereby amended by omitting the words “paragraphs (a) to (f) of subsection (1) and paragraphs (a) to (d) of subsection (2)”, and substituting the words “subsection (1)”.

The principal Act is hereby amended—

Section 57 of the principal Act is hereby amended by repealing subsection (1), and substituting the following subsection:

Section 97(1) of the principal Act (as substituted by section 33 of the Racing Amendment Act 1980) is hereby amended by repealing paragraph (b), and substituting the following paragraph:

Section 97(1)(e) of the principal Act (as so substituted) is hereby amended by omitting the figures “10.93”, and substituting the figures “11.93”.

Notwithstanding that subsection (3) of section 5 of the Heavy Engineering Research Levy Act 1978 requires notices fixing rates of research levy under subsection (1) of that section to be published in the Gazette at least 28 days before they come into force, the notice under the said subsection (1) published in the Gazette on the 8th day of March 1979 at page 517 and purporting to come into force on the 1st day of April 1979 is hereby validated and declared to be lawful and effectual according to its tenor.

Notwithstanding that—

the said notice is hereby validated and declared to be as lawful and effectual as if it had prescribed a rate for the said levy at the rate to which it purported to notify that that levy had been increased.

The Fisheries (Sea Fishing) Notice 1983 (hereafter in this section referred to as the said notice) is hereby deemed to have come into force on the 1st day of October 1983.

Clauses 2 and 3 of the said notice are hereby declared to be as lawful and effectual as if they were regulations made by Order in Council under section 89(1)(g) of the Fisheries Act 1983.

For the avoidance of doubt, it is hereby declared that the quotas, and the allocations of those quotas, specified in the said notice apply only in respect of the year that commenced on the 1st day of October 1983.

The following enactments are hereby deemed to have come into force on the 1st day of October 1984:

The enactments specified in the Schedule to this Act are hereby repealed.

The repeal by subsection (1) of this section of the enactments specified in the Schedule to this Act shall not affect the validity of anything validated by any of those enactments.