Local Government (Reorganisation) Act, 1985

Section 10 , supplementary provisions.

18.—(1) The Minister may by regulations provide that, notwithstanding the alteration of boundaries effected by section 10 of this Act—

(a) any enactment (other than this Act) or any order, regulation, rule, bye-law or other instrument or agreement made wholly or partly under any such enactment, shall, for such period as may be specified in the regulations, continue to have effect in the added areas, in the excluded areas or in any part so specified of those areas,

(b) the expression “county borough” in any enactment specified in the regulations or in any such instrument or agreement so specified shall, for such period as is so specified, continue to include (and be deemed always to have continued to include) the excluded areas or any part so specified of the excluded areas.

(2) Nothing in this section shall be construed as prejudicing the generality of section 24 of this Act.