Statutory Instruments
LOCAL GOVERNMENT, SCOTLAND
Made
1st December 1988
Laid before Parliament
9th December 1988
Coming into force
31st December 1988
The Secretary of State, in exercise of the powers conferred on him by section 225(6)(b) of the Local Government (Scotland) Act 1973 (1), and of all other powers enabling him in that behalf, hereby makes the following Order:
1. This Order may be cited as the Local Statutory Provisions (Postponement of Repeal) (Scotland) Order 1988 and shall come into force on 31st December 1988.
2. In this Order “the Act” means the Local Government (Scotland) Act 1973. “local statutory provision” means any local Statutory provision to which section 225(6) of the Act applies.
3. The date on which all local statutory provisions applying to the whole or any part of the local government areas specified in the Schedule to this Order, so far as they apply, are to cease to have effect under section 225(6) of the Act is hereby postponed to 31st December 1989.
James Douglas-Hamilton
Parliamentary Under Secretary of State, Scottish Office
St Andrew’s House,
Edinburgh
1st December 1988
Article 3
Strathclyde Region
City of Dundee District
City of Edinburgh District
(This note is not part of the Order)
Section 225(6) of the Local Government (Scotland) Act 1973 as amended provides that all local statutory provisions to which the subsection applies shall cease to have effect at the end of 1984. Previous Orders (S.I. 1984/1926, 1985/1629. 1986/2034 and 1987/2090) have postponed until the end of 1988 the date on which such local statutory provisions applying to the local government areas or parts thereof listed in the Schedules to those Orders were to cease to have effect. This Order further postpones that date until the end of 1989 in respect of those local government areas listed in the Schedule to this Order.
1973 c. 65; section 225(6) was amended by the Civic Government (Scotland) Act 1982 (c. 45), section 134(1).