Electricity Act 1957

Consultative Councils

1 (1) Any person holding office as a member of a Consultative Council, or as chairman or deputy chairman of a Consultative Council, by virtue of an appointment made before the vesting date, shall continue to hold that office on and after that date, notwithstanding that his appointment—

(a) in the case of any of the Consultative Councils in England and Wales, was not in accordance with the provisions of section seven of the principal Act as amended by section five of, and Part I of the First Schedule to, this Act, or

(b) in the case of either of the Consultative Councils in Scotland, was not in accordance with the provisions of the new section seven A inserted in the principal Act by section five of, and Part II of the First Schedule to, this Act,

until the time when he would have ceased to hold that office by virtue of that appointment if section five of this Act had not been enacted.

(2) Any regulations made by virtue of the said section seven which are in force immediately before the vesting date, in so far as they relate to matters for which provision could be made by regulations under that section as amended by this Act, or under the said new section seven A, as the case may be, shall continue to have effect after that date, until revoked, as if they had been made under the said section seven as so amended, or under the said section seven A, as the case may be.