Activities preliminary to the exercise of functions
12. Any enactment by virtue of which the County Council is required, during the preliminary period, to prepare any budgets or plans, or to consult any person, for purposes connected with the exercise, on and after the reorganisation date, of any of the functions transferred by article 3 shall, subject to any other relevant provision, cease to have effect in relation to that council; and any such enactment shall instead have effect, during that period and for those purposes, in relation to the Cleveland borough councils.