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X1(1)The proviso to section 6(1) of the M1 Fire Services Act 1947 (obligation of Secretary of State to obtain consent of county council to a combination scheme made by him where population oil the county exceeds 100,000) shall cease to have effect.
(2)A combination scheme may be made under section 5 of the said Act of 1947 before 1st April 1974 with respect to two or more new counties, but except so far as it relates to the constitution of an authority as the fire authority for the combined area and to the performance by that authority of their functions under subsection (3) below or any functions necessary for bringing the scheme into full operation on that date, the scheme shall not come into force before that date.
(3)Not later than the 1st January 1974 every council of a new county or every new fire authority established for a combined area by any such scheme which will not come into full operation until 1st April 1974 shall prepare and submit to the Secretary of State for his approval an establishment scheme for a fire brigade for the county or combined area under section 19 of the said Act of 1947 to come into force on 1st April 1974, and the Secretary of State shall, not later than 15th March 1974, approve that scheme either as submitted or subject to such modifications as he may direct.
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X1(5)In section 10 of the M2 Fire Services Act 1947, as amended by Schedule 8 to the M3 Local Government Act 1958 (power to make schemes in advance of alterations of local government areas) for the words from the beginning to “combined authorities” there shall be substituted the words “ If an order is made under Part IV of the Local Government Act 1972 constituting any area as a new county or altering the area of a county ”F2. . .
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X1The text of s. 197(1)(5) is in the form in which it was originally enacted: it was not reproduced in Statutes in Force and does not reflect any amendments or repeals which may have been made prior to 1.2.1991.
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F2Words in s. 197(5) repealed (31.10.1992) by LOcal Government Act 1992 (c. 19), s. 29(2), Sch. 4 Pt.II; S.I. 1992/2371, art.2
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C1 “the said Act of 1947” means Fire Services Act 1947 (c. 41)
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