Local Government (Scotland) Act 1973

229 The Burgh Police (Scotland) Acts 1892 to 1911

(1) The Burgh Police (Scotland) Acts 1892 to 1911 shall cease to have effect at the end of 1979, and until that time those Acts shall have effect subject to the amendments set out in Schedule 28 to this Act, to the provisions of this section and of any order made thereunder.

(2) Subject to subsection (3) below, the said Acts of 1892 to 1911 shall continue to apply in those areas and to those things and persons in which, to which and to whom they at present apply.

(3) The Secretary of State may by order provide for the extension of any provision of the said Acts of 1892 to 1911 to such areas, things and persons as he may think fit, and, without prejudice to that generality, any such order may—

(a) extend the provision throughout a new local government area;

(b) provide that the provision shall have effect in such an area to the exclusion of any enactment for corresponding purposes;

(c) make such modifications of any such enactment in its application to such an area as will secure that the enactment will operate harmoniously with the said provision in that area;

(d) repeal or revoke any such enactment or instrument which appears to the Secretary of State to have become spent, obsolete or unnecessary, or to have been substantially superseded by any such provision ;

(e) transfer to any authority appearing to the Secretary of State to be appropriate any function of an existing local authority which is not to become a function of some other authority;

(f) make such modifications of the said provision in its application to a new local government area as appear to the Secretary of State to be expedient.

(4) An instrument containing an order under this section shall be subject to annulment in pursuance of a resolution of either House of Parliament.