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This order may be cited as the Local
Authorities (Miscellaneous Provision) Order 1975
and shall come into operation on 27th March 1975.
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(1) Article
4(2), article 9(1)
in so far as it relates to Part I
of the Schedule to this order and article 9(2)
 are made by the Secretary of State for the
Environment.
(2) Article
4(3), article 9(1)
in so far as it relates to Part II
of the Schedule to this order and article 9(3)
 are made by the Secretary of State for Wales.

(3) Subject to 
paragraphs (1) and (2),
this order is made by the Secretary of State for the Environment in relation
to England and by the Secretary of State for Wales in relation to Wales.
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(1) The 
Interpretation Act 1889 shall apply for the
interpretation of this order as it applies for the interpretation of an Act
of Parliament.
(2) In this order 
“the Act” means the 
Local Government Act 1972.
(3) In this order—
(a) references to any enactment shall be
construed as references to that enactment as amended, extended or applied
by or under any other enactment;
(b) references to any instrument shall be
construed as references to that instrument as amended, extended or applied
by any other instrument.
(4) Any reference in this order to a numbered
article shall, unless the reference is to an article of a specified order,
be construed as a reference to the article bearing that number in this order.

(5) Any reference in any article of this
order to a numbered paragraph shall, unless the reference is to a paragraph
of a specified article, be construed as a reference to the paragraph bearing
that number in the first-mentioned article.
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(1) In the 
County Courts Districts Order 1970 in Schedule 1
, in column (1), for “Newport
(Mon.)” there shall be substituted “Newport (Gwent)”
.
(2) In the 
Local Authorities (England) (Property etc.) Order 1973, in article
23(5) (questions as to user rights) and in 
article 39(2) and (3)
(general provision as to disputes), for “1st April
1975” there shall be substituted “1st April 1976”
.
(3) In the 
Local Authorities (Wales) (Property etc.) Order 1973, in article
23(5) (questions as to user rights) and in 
article 38(2) and (3)
(general provision as to disputes), for “1st April
1975” there shall be substituted “1st April 1976”
.
(4) In the 
Porthmadog Harbour Revision Order 1974, in 
article 6(2) (constitution of Harbour Committees)
for “Porthmadog Urban District Council” there shall
be substituted “District Council of Dwyfor”.
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Subsections (2)
and (3) of section 73 of
the Act (alteration of local boundaries consequent on alteration of water-courses)
shall apply where, in exercise of any power conferred by the 
Land Drainage Act 1930 or any other enactment,
water-courses forming boundary lines between two or more areas, of local government
had been straightened, widened or otherwise altered, so as to affect their
character as boundary lines, before 1st April 1974.

In the application of the said subsection (2)
, “in the notice”
shall be omitted.
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(1) Subject to the provisions of 
paragraph (8) this article applies—
 to the areas of the boroughs of Deal and Dover as existing at 31st March
1974 as from any conferment on the District of Dover of the status of a borough;

 to the area of the borough of Folkestone as so existing as from any
such conferment on the District of Shepway;
 to the areas of the boroughs of Margate and Ramsgate as so existing
as from any such conferment on the District of Thanet.and the dissolution under subsection
(7) of section 246 of the Act of the charter
trustees for the areas.
(2) For the exercise of the functions in
relation to the Confederation of the Cinque Ports which were immediately before
1st April 1974 exercised by the corporation of the borough of Deal, Dover,
Folkestone, Margate or Ramsgate there shall be a body corporate for the area
of the borough by the name—
(a) in the case of Dover, of “the
Cinque Port Trustees”;
(b) in the case of Deal, Folkestone, Margate
or Ramsgate, of “the Corporate Trustees”.with the addition of the name of the borough, consisting of the
district councillors for the wards wholly or partly comprising the area or,
if the number of those councillors is less than three, consisting of those
councillors and such number of local government electors for the area appointed
by the district council as will make the number of trustees up to three.
(3) The trustees for any area may in every
year appoint one of their number to be town mayor and another to be deputy
town mayor. Any town mayor or deputy town mayor appointed by the charter trustees
for the area under paragraph (b) of subsection
(4) of section 246 of the Act shall hold office
as if he had been appointed by the cinque port trustees or corporate trustees.

(4) 
Subsections (10) to (16) of section 246 of
the Act and the Charter Trustees
Order 1974
shall apply to cinque port trustees and corporate trustees as they apply to
charter trustees.
(5) All property and liabilities vested in
or attaching to the charter trustees for the area shall by virtue of this
order be transferred to and vest in or attach to the cinque port trustees
or corporate trustees.All contracts, deeds, bonds, agreements and other instruments subsisting
in favour of, or against, and all notices in force which were given (or have
effect as if they had been given) by, or against, such charter trustees shall
be of full force and effect in favour of, or against, the cinque port trustees
or corporate trustees.Any action or proceeding or any cause of action or proceeding,
pending or existing at the dissolution of such charter trustees, by, or against,
such charter trustees shall not be prejudicially affected by reason of the
dissolution, and may be continued, prosecuted and enforced by, or against,
the cinque port trustees or corporate trustees.
(6) The accounts of the charter trustees
and of the committees and officers thereof shall be made up to the dissolution
of the charter trustees and shall be audited in like manner and subject to
the same incidents and consequences as if the charter trustees had not been
dissolved:Provided that any sum certified by a district auditor
as due from any person shall be paid to the cinque port trustees or corporate
trustees.
(7) Any officer of the charter trustees shall
be transferred to the employment of the cinque port trustees or corporate
trustees, and paragraphs
(1), (6), 
(8) and (13) of article 13
of the Local Authorities etc. (Staff Transfer and Protection)
Order 1974 shall apply to such officer as they apply to officers transferred
by an article, scheme or determination mentioned in the said 
paragraph (1).
(8) If any area to which this article applies
becomes, or becomes comprised in, a parish, this article shall cease to apply
to the area or part and accordingly the cinque port trustees or corporate
trustees shall cease to act therefor.
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Any corporate land (within the meaning of the 
Local Government Act 1933) vested in the corporation
of a London borough shall be held as if it had been acquired under 
section 120(1)(b) of the Act.
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(1) In relation to the Oakham Cemetery the
functions conferred by section 214
of, and Schedule 26 to,
the Act shall be exercised by the District Council of Rutland.
(2) All property and liabilities vested in
the Town Council of Oakham and the Parish Meetings of Barleythorpe and Gunthorpe
for the purposes of such functions shall by virtue of this order be transferred
to and vest in or attach to the said District Council, and—
(a) all contracts, deeds, bonds, agreements
and other instruments subsisting in favour of, or against, and all notices
in force which were given (or have effect as if they had been given) by, or
to, the said Town Council and Parish Meetings in respect of such property
or liabilities shall be of full force and effect in favour of, or against,
the said District Council; and
(b) any action or proceeding or any cause
of action or proceedings, pending or existing immediately before the coming
into operation of this order, by, or against, the said Town Council and Parish
Meetings in respect of such property or liabilities shall not be prejudicially
affected by reason of this article, and may be continued, prosecuted and enforced
by, or against, the said District Council.
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(1) Any property described in 
column (2) of Part I or II
of the Schedule to this order of an authority named in column (1) and all
liabilities attaching to the said authority in respect of any such property
shall by virtue of this order be transferred to and vest in or attach to the
authority specified in respect of such property in column (3), and—

(i) all contracts, deeds, bonds, agreements
and other instruments subsisting in favour of, or against, and all notices
in force which were given (or have effect as if they had been given) by, or
to, the authority named in the said column (1) in respect of such property
or liabilities shall be of full force and effect in favour of, or against,
the authority specified in column (3); and
(ii) any action or proceeding or any cause
of action or proceeding, pending or existing immediately before the coming
into operation of this order, by, or against, the authority named in the said
column (1) in respect of such property or liabilities shall not be prejudicially
affected by reason of this article, and may be continued, prosecuted and enforced
by, or against, the authority specified in column (3).
(2) Articles
11, 17, 
23, 28, 
29, 32, 
33, 34(2), 
35, 38 and 
39 of the Local Authorities (England)
(Property etc.) Order 1973 and 
articles 7 and 8
of the Local Authorities etc. (England) (Property etc.:
Further Provision) Order 1974 shall apply as if 
paragraph (1) above and 
Part I of the Schedule to this order were contained
in the said order of 1973.
(3) Articles
11, 17, 
23, 27, 
28, 31, 
32, 33(2), 
34, 37 and 
38 of the Local Authorities (Wales)
(Property etc.) Order 1973 and 
articles 6 and 8
of the Local Authorities etc. (Wales) (Property etc.: Further
Provision) Order 1974 shall apply as if 
paragraph (1) above and 
Part II of the Schedule to this order were
contained in the said order of 1973.
Anthony Crosland
Secretary of State for the Environment
25th February 1975John Morris
Secretary of State for Wales
25th February 1975
SCHEDULE
Article 9
PART I

(1) (2) (3)
Transferor Authority Property Transferee Authority
The County Council of Warwickshire. Child Welfare Clinic and Store, Priory Estate. The Secretary of State for Health and Social Security.

The City Council of Bradford.
 Approximately 8½ acres generally
bounded by Nelson Street, Croft Street, Britannia Street and Bridge Street,
Bradford (excluding the hotel and multi-storey car park), subject to a right
of way, with or without vehicles, over Greenwood Court in favour of the transferor
authority and all persons claiming under them. The West Yorkshire Passenger Transport Executive.
The District Council of Holderness. The piece of land known as Elim Lodge, Hornsea,
together with the building, known as the Town Hall, thereon and all other
buildings and structures thereon which were in the ownership of the former
Hornsea Urban District Council. The Town
Council of Hornsea.
The District
Council of North East Derbyshire. Offices
at No. 95 High Street, Clay Cross. The
Parish Council of Clay Cross.
do. Clay Cross Social Centre,
Derby Road, Clay Cross. 
do.
do. Approximately 5,025 sq. yds. of land fronting Riber
Crescent, Clay Cross. 
do.
do. Approximately 1.06 acres of land adjacent to allotments
at Clay Lane, Clay Cross. 
do.
do. Land situate at the junction of High Street and
Clay Lane, Clay Cross. 
do.
do. Areas of landscaped land on the west side of High
Street, Clay Cross, leased from the Clay Cross Company. do.
do. Land at
Pilsley Road, Clay Cross, used as an omnibus turning point. do.
The District Council of Richmondshire. The Harmby and Spennithorne Cemetery. The Parish Council of Urevale.
The Borough Council of St. Helens. 
17/19 Victoria Road, Newton-le-Willows. 
The County Council of Lancashire.

The Borough Council of Southend-on-Sea. 
Site approximately 0.53 acres in extent to the north of Smith Street, Shoeburyness,
bounded on the west by Hinguar Street and on the east by Nos. 9 to 15 High
Street. The County Council of Essex.

The District Council of West
Oxfordshire. Bampton Cemetery, Bampton.
 The Parish Council of Bampton.
do. Burford Cemetery, Burford. 
The Parish Council of Burford and Uptown and Signet.
do. 
Hanborough Cemetery, Hanborough. The
Parish Council of Hanborough.
do. Ramsden Cemetery, Ramsden.
 The Parish Council of Ramsden.
do. Stanton Harcourt Cemetery, Stanton Harcourt. The Parish Council of Stanton Harcourt.
The Parish Council of Berkhamsted. Cemetery at Brickhill Green, Kingshill. The District Council of Dacorum.
The Town Council of Denholme. Parish matters comprised in item No. 13 of the table in 
Schedule 2 to the Local Authorities
(England) (Property etc.) Order 1973, other
than shelters. The City Council of Bradford.

The Parish Council of Portland.
 Portland Cemetery. The Borough Council of Weymouth and Portland.
do. All town and village greens, shelters, public clocks, war
memorials, bicycle parking places and rights in commons. do.
The Parish Council of Silsden. 
Parish matters comprised in item No. 13 of the table in 
Schedule 2 of the Local Authorities
(England) (Property etc.) Order 1973, other
than bus shelters. The City Council of
Bradford.
The Town Council
of Tring. Cemetery on the north side
of Aylesbury Road, Tring. The District
Council of Dacorum.
PART II

(1) (2) (3)
Transferor Authority Property Transferee Authority
The County Council of Mid Glamorgan. Glamorgan Residential Nursery for the Deaf, Heoldon,
Whitchurch, Cardiff. The County Council
of South Glamorgan.
The Borough
Council of Ynys Mon—Isle of Anglesey. 
Amlwch Institute. The Town Council of
Amlwch.
The Town Council of
Glynneath. Land and swimming baths comprising
approximately 0·25 hectare at Lancaster Close, Glynneath. The Borough Council of Neath.