Commentary on Clauses and Schedules General Section 14: Orders and regulations: retrospective provisions
51.Orders made under sections 3, 4, 6 and 12 of the Act may provide for any provision to have retrospective effect from a specified time on the date of a statement by the Treasury of their intention to make such an order in relation to a deposit-taker, or on the date on which any transfer was made under a previous relevant order. The order may also nullify the effect of transactions or events that took place after that time.
52.It might be necessary to make retrospective provision in a case where a transfer order had been made under section 3 and then a subsequent order under that section made supplementary provision in connection with the transfer under the previous order. It might be desirable for the supplementary provisions to have effect as from the date of the transfer.
53.The power under paragraph 4 of Schedule 1 to nullify the effect of instruments might be used retrospectively where, for example, announcement of the intention to use the power triggered rights to terminate loans to a deposit-taker or other relevant contracts.
54.Tax provisions made under section 10 may have retrospective effect to a time three months before Royal Assent. This would enable any such provisions to be backdated to a reasonable time before Royal Assent, to deal with the tax consequences of any transactions taking place in that period.