Local Employment Act 1972
1972 c. 5
An Act to consolidate, with certain exceptions, the provisions of the Local Employment Acts 1960 to 1971.
Development areas and intermediate areas
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Powers for provision of employment
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Powers for contributing to development of industry
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Industrial estates corporations
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Supplementary provisions
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19 Transitional provisions.
The provisions of Schedule 2 to this Act shall have effect in relation to the matters there dealt with . . . F18
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21 Interpretation.
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For the purposes of this Act Monmouthshire shall be deemed to be part of Wales.
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Except where the context otherwise requires, in this Act any reference to any enactment shall be construed as a reference to that enactment as amended, and as including a reference thereto as extended or applied, by any other enactment.
22 Consequential amendments, repeals and savings.
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The enactments specified in Schedule 3 to this Act shall have effect subject to the amendments there specified.
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Nothing in this section shall be construed as affecting the general application of section 38 of the M1Interpretation Act 1889 with respect to the effect of repeals.
23 Short title, commencement and extent.
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This Act may be cited as the Local Employment Act 1972.
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This Act shall come into force at the expiration of the period of one month beginning with the day on which it is passed.
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This Act does not extend to Northern Ireland.
SCHEDULES
F23F23SCHEDULE 1
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SCHEDULE 2 Transitional Provisions
Part IM2Provisions relating to coming into force of Local Employment Act 1960
Pension schemes of industrial estates companies
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The following provisions of this paragraph shall have effect as respects any pension, superannuation or life-assurance scheme or fund in force on 1st April 1960 for the benefit of persons in the employment or former employment of any of the following companies, that is to say—
North Eastern Trading Estates Limited
Wales and Monmouthshire Industrial Estates Limited
The West Cumberland Industrial Development Company Limited
Scottish Industrial Estates Limited
North Western Industrial Estates Limited.
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Anything authorised or required to be done for the purposes of the scheme or fund on or after 1st April 1960 which, apart from this paragraph, would fall to be done by, with or to the company or its directors shall be treated as falling to be done by, with or to the industrial estates corporation acting for the part of Great Britain in which the company exercised its functions.
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For the purposes of the scheme or fund, employment on or after 1st April 1960 by the said corporation shall be treated as equivalent to employment by the company, and employment on or after that date by the company shall be disregarded.
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Any requirement to do anything for the said purposes at the registered office of the company shall be treated, in relation to things falling to be done on or after 1st April 1960, as a requirement to do that thing at the head office of the said industrial estates corporation.
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References in any deed, rules or other document to the company shall be construed as, or as including, references to the said industrial estates corporation as may be required for giving effect to, or in consequence of, the foregoing provisions of this paragraph.
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Part IIM5Provisions relating to coming into force of Part II of Industrial Development Act 1966
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Re-naming of industrial estates corporations
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In any enactment or instrument passed or made before 19th August 1966, for any reference to an industrial estates corporation by its original name (that is, the name given to it by section 8 of the M3Local Employment Act 1960) there shall be substituted a reference to that corporation by the new name given to it by section 19(1) of the M4Industrial Development Act 1966 (that is, the appropriate name specified in section 10(1) of this Act).
Part III
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Part IV
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Part V Other Provisions
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C2Schedule 3 CONSEQUENTIAL AMENDMENTS
The text of s. 22(1) and Sch. 3 is in the form in which it was originally enacted: it was not reproduced in Statutes in Force and does not reflect any amendments or repeals which may have been made prior to 1.2.1991.
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M6The Industrial Development Act 1966
In paragraph 5(1) of Schedule 1 to the Industrial Development Act 1966—
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for the words “under Part II of this Act” there shall be substituted the words “by an order made or having effect under section 1 of the Local Employment Act 1972”;
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for the words “the said Part II” there shall be substituted the words “the said Act of 1972”.
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M7The Finance Act 1970
For subsection (3) of section 15 of the Finance Act 1970 there shall be subsituted the following subsection—
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For the purposes of subsection (2) above “development area” and “intermediate area” have the same meaning as in the Local Employment Act 1972.
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F39F39SCHEDULE 4
Sch. 4 repealed by Statute Law (Repeals) Act 1978 (c. 45), Sch. 1 Pt. VIII
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Sch. 1 repealed by English Industrial Estates Corporation Act 1981 (c. 13, SIF 64), s. 9(4), Sch. 2