34Consequential, transitional and supplementary provision
(1)The following provisions of the 1972 Act, that is to say—
section 254 (consequential orders, etc.) and section 68 (transitional agreements as to property and finance) as applied by section 254 ;
section 255 (transfer of officers);
section 256 (continuity of employment);
section 257 (staff commission);
section 259 (compensation for loss of office);
section 260 (option for early retirement);
shall apply for the purposes of this Act as they apply for the purposes of that Act or, as the case may be. Part IV of that Act, but subject to the exceptions and modifications contained in Part I of Schedule 6 to this Act.
(2)The provisions of Part II of that Schedule, being provisions which reproduce with modifications certain provisions of section 262 of the 1972 Act (local Acts and instruments), shall have effect with respect to local statutory provisions in force immediately before 1st April 1974.
(3)An order under section 2(5) above altering the boundaries of a water authority area and an order under section 25 above may include the like provision in relation to the order as may be made by regulations of general application under section 67 of the 1972 Act by virtue of subsection (2) of the latter section.