
1 
This order may be cited as The Metropolitan Counties (Local Statutory Provisions) Order 1979 and shall come into operation on 30th August 1979.
2 
The date on which all the local statutory provisions applying to the whole or part of a metropolitan county, so far as they so apply, are to cease to have effect is hereby postponed to 31st December 1980.
Michael R.D. Heseltine
Secretary of State for the Environment
1st August 1979