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LOCAL GOVERNMENT (IMPLEMENTATION) ACT 1999 - SECT 12

12—Constitution of councils

        (1)         All councils, council committees, areas and wards in existence immediately before the relevant day continue under the 1999 Act (and, for the purposes of that or any other Act, will be taken to have been constituted under that Act).

        (2)         All persons (other than returning officers) holding office under or by virtue of the provisions of the 1934 Act immediately before the relevant day continue to hold office under the 1999 Act or the 1999 Electoral Act (as appropriate).

        (3)         A person holding the office of alderman under the 1934 Act immediately before the relevant day will be taken to be a councillor appointed or elected as a representative of the area as a whole for the relevant council under the 1999 Act and may continue to use the title of "alderman" until the conclusion of the general election for the council to be held in May 2000.

        (4)         Section 54(1)(e) of the 1999 Act does not apply to a member of a council holding office immediately before the relevant day until the conclusion of the general election for the Council to be held in May 2000.

        (5)         A reference in another Act to an authorised person as defined in the Local Government Act 1999 will, until the relevant day, be taken to include a reference to an authorised person as defined in the Local Government Act 1934 .



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