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§ Mr. Graham PageI beg to move Amendment No. 76, in page 33, leave out line 10.
§ Mr. SpeakerWith this amendment it will be convenient to discuss Amendments Nos. 77, 111 to 115 and 118 to 121.
§ Mr. Graham PageThe amendments concern consequential, transitional and supplementary provisions in the clause, which applies to certain provisions of the Local Government Act 1972 and to Schedule 5, which adapts these provisions for the purposes of the Bill.
The amendments have three main objects. The first is to ensure that the consequential, transitional and supplementary provisions cover all the various bodies affected by the Bill. The second is to introduce into Schedule 5 the convenient terms "transferor body" and "transferee authority". The third is to simplify the Bill for the reader by adding a new Part II of Schedule 5 instead of carrying it over by cross-reference to other statutes.
These are useful tidying up amendments, which will remove certain doubts —particularly a doubt expressed by the Norfolk County Council whether the application of Section 255 of the 1972 Act covers the staff which it and a few other county councils employ to advise district councils on sewerage and sewage disposal. I think that we have cleared up that point sensibly.
§ Amendment agreed to.
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Amendment made: No. 77, in page 33, leave out line 14 and insert:
' in Part I of Schedule 5 to this Act.
(2) The provisions of Part II of that Schedule, being provisions which reproduce with modifications certain provisions of section 262 of the 1972 Act (local Acts and instruments), shall have effect with respect to local statutory provisions in force immediately before 1st April 1914.—[Mr. Graham Page.]