notwithstanding the changes of administrative areas and local authorities effected by or under this Act and, in the case of an instrument made under any enactment, notwithstanding the repeal of that enactment, continue to apply on and after 1st April 1974 to, but only to, the area, things or persons to which or to whom it applies before that date;

have effect subject to any necessary modifications and to the modifications made by subsections (3) to (5) below;

this Act, other than Part I of Schedule 29;

any Act passed after this Act and before 1st April 1974; and

any order made under section 254 above or the following provisions of this section.

for any reference to an existing county or its council there shall be substituted a reference to so much of the new county or counties as comprises the area of the existing county or any part thereof or, as the case may be, the council of that new county or the councils of those new counties;

for any reference to an existing county borough or county district or the council of either there shall be substituted a reference to so much of the new district or districts as comprises the area of the existing borough or district or any part thereof or, as the case may be, the council of that new district or the councils of those new districts.

for any reference to a rural parish there shall be substituted a reference to the corresponding community;

for any reference to the council of any such parish which has a council, whether separate or common, there shall be substituted a reference to the council of the corresponding community; and

for any reference to the parish meeting of any such parish which has no council there shall be substituted a reference to the council of the new district which comprises the corresponding community.

as confers functions on the Secretary of State with respect to the determination of tolls or other charges with respect to any fair, or

as requires the submission to the Secretary of State of, or of proposals relating to, any scale of tolls or other charges with respect to any fair,

extend the provision throughout the new local government area in which it is continued in force;

provide that that provision as so continued, amended, modified or extended shall have effect in that area to the exclusion of any enactment for corresponding purposes, including any enactment contained in or applied by this Act;

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

repeal or revoke any local statutory provision to which this section applies and which appears to the Secretary of State or that Minister to have become spent, obsolete or unnecessary or to have been substantially superseded by any enactment or instrument which applies or may be applied to the area, persons or things to which or to whom that provision applies;

transfer to any authority appearing to the Secretary of State or that Minister to be appropriate any functions of an existing local authority under a local statutory provision to which this section applies which are not to become functions of some other authority under any provision of this Act except section 254 above and this section, or under any other instrument made under this Act, being functions exercisable by any existing local authority abolished by this Act;

without prejudice to paragraph (e) above, make such modifications of any local statutory provision to which this section applies in its application to any new local government area as appear to the Secretary of State or that Minister to be expedient.

the Secretary of State or any appropriate Minister may by order exempt any such provision from the foregoing provision of this subsection;

the Secretary of State may from time to time by order postpone the date on which all the local statutory provisions applying to the whole or part of any local government area, so far as they so apply, are to cease to have effect under this subsection.

the council of an administrative county, urban district or rural district;

the municipal corporation of a borough acting by the council of that borough;

any commissioners, trustees or other persons invested by any local Act with powers of town government or rating;

any local board constituted in pursuance of the M2Public Health Act 1848, the M3Local Government Act 1858, the M4Local Government (1858) Amendment Act 1861 or the M5Local Government Amendment Act 1863; or

without prejudice to the foregoing any body of persons constituted or designated as an urban or rural sanitary authority under the M6Public Health Act 1875;