law: General Clauses Act, 1897
  8. Construction of references to repealed enactment
  19[(1) Where this Act, or any 13[Central Act] or Regulation made
  
  after the commencement of this Act, repeals and re-enacts, with or without
  
  modification, any provision of a former enactment, then references in any other
  
  enactment or in any instrument to the provision so repealed shall, unless a
  
  different intention appears, be construed as references to the provision so
  
  re-enacted.
  20[(2)] 21[Where before the fifteenth day of August, 1947, any
  
  Act of Parliament of the United Kingdom repealed and re-enacted, with or
  
  without modification, any provision of a former enactment, then references in
  
  any 13[Central Act] or in any Regulation or instrument to the provision so
  
  repealed shall, unless a different intention appears, be construed as
  
  references to the provision so re-enacted