Local Government Reform Act 2014
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Dissolution of town councils — consequential provisions | ||
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25. (1) (a) All acts done and decisions duly made, whether by resolution, manager’s order or otherwise, before the transfer date in respect of a town council shall, subject to this Act, continue to have all such force and effect as they had immediately before that date. | ||
(b) In this subsection “acts done or decisions duly made” include resolutions of the town council concerned and manager’s orders of that authority. | ||
(2) A function of a town council (including a reference construed by section 3(2) of, and Schedule 2 to, the Principal Act as a reference to a town council and whether of general application to town councils or otherwise under an enactment) that— | ||
(a) has not been repealed or otherwise provided for by this Act, or | ||
(b) is neither spent nor obsolete, | ||
shall, if the context permits in respect of one or more than one town council concerned, be read as a reference to a function of the local authority in whose administrative area the town council so dissolved is situated. | ||
(3) Without prejudice to section 4 , the Minister may make regulations providing for any matter or thing which the Minister considers necessary to give effect to the dissolution of any one or more town councils. | ||
(4) For the purposes of this Part but without prejudice to section 5 and Part 1 of Schedule 1 (where relevant)— | ||
(a) section 2(1) of the Principal Act is amended— | ||
(i) in the definition of “administrative area” in the manner provided for in Part 1 of Schedule 1, and | ||
(ii) by deleting the interpretation given to “town council”, as provided for in Part 1 of Schedule 1, | ||
(b) section 10 of the Principal Act is amended by deleting the reference to “town council” in the manner provided for by section 12 , | ||
(c) section 11 of the Principal Act is amended— | ||
(i) by deleting subsection (4), and by deleting the reference to subsection (4) in subsection (7), in the manner provided for by section 14 , and | ||
(ii) by inserting subsection (16A) into that section in the manner provided for by section 14 , | ||
(d) Part 17 (sections 185 to 187) of the Principal Act is repealed as provided for in Part 1 of Schedule 1, and | ||
(e) Schedule 6 to the Principal Act is repealed as provided for in Part 1 of Schedule 1. |