Local Government (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 2012

Transfer orders.

7.— The Act of 1971 is amended by inserting the following section after section 5:

“Transfer orders.

5A.— (1) The Minister may, with the consent of the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform, and having regard to the promotion of administrative efficiencies and economies of scale and the matters referred to in section 3(1A), by order transfer the assets and liabilities of a body or bodies specified in section 10 of the Local Government (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 2012.

(2) An order under subsection (1) shall contain such provisions as the Minister considers necessary or expedient consequential on the dissolution of the body or bodies concerned, and, in particular, may make provision for—

(a) the transfer or distribution of the functions, property, rights and liabilities of the body or bodies concerned to one or more than one of the following—

(i) the Minister,

(ii) a body established by an establishment order,

(iii) an authority to which this Act applies, or

(iv) a Department of State (subject to the consent of the relevant Minister),

(b) the preservation of continuing contracts made by the body or bodies concerned,

(c) the continuance of pending legal proceedings,

(d) the transfer of staff of the body or bodies concerned to—

(i) an authority to which this Act applies,

(ii) a body established by an establishment order, or

(iii) a Department of State (subject to the consent of the relevant Minister),

(e) transitional arrangements in relation to the superannuation of officers and servants of the body or bodies concerned,

(f) the preparation and auditing of final accounts of the body or bodies concerned,

(g) the preparation of a final report of the body or bodies concerned, and

(h) any other transitional, supplementary or incidental matters that appear to the Minister to be necessary for the purposes of the order.”.