“ The Statute Law Revision (No. 2) Act, 1888, shall be read and construed as if in the entry in the schedule thereto relating to the Act of the session held in fifth and sixth years of the reign of King William the Fourth, chapter twenty-six, sections two, three, and four were therein referred to, in lieu of sections one, two, and three respectively. ”

“ Savings.
3. The repeal of any words or expressions of enactment described in the First Schedule to this Act shall not affect the binding force, operation, or construction of any statute, or of any part of a statute, whether as respects the past or future;
and where any enactment not comprised in the First Schedule to this Act has been repealed, confirmed, revived, or perpetuated by any enactment hereby repealed, such repeal, confirmation, revivor, or perpetuation shall not be affected by the repeal effected by this Act ”