57 Establishment of residuary bodies.U.K.
(1)On the appointed day there shall be established—
(a)for Greater London a body corporate to be known as the London Residuary Body; and
(b)for each metropolitan county a body corporate to be known by the name of that county with the addition of the words “Residuary Body”.
(2)The bodies established by this section are in this Act referred to as residuary bodies, and in this Act “the appropriate residuary body” means, in relation to Greater London or the Greater London Council, the London Residuary Body and, in relation to a metropolitan county or the council of that county, the residuary body established for that county.
(3)Each of those bodies shall consist of not less than five and not more than ten members appointed by the Secretary of State; and the Secretary of State shall appoint one of those members to be chairman and may appoint another to be deputy chairman of that body.
(4)As soon as may be after the establishment of a joint committee under section 95 below for Greater London or a metropolitan county the Secretary of State shall, after consultation with that committee, appoint one of its members to be a member of the appropriate residuary body.
(5)The Secretary of State may by an order applying to all or any of the residuary bodies alter either of the numbers specified in subsection (3) above.
(6)In this section “the appointed day” means such day before the abolition date as the Secretary of State may by order appoint, and different days may be appointed for different residuary bodies.
(7)Schedule 13 to this Act shall have effect with respect to each residuary body.
Modifications etc. (not altering text)
C1S. 57(3) modified (4.1.1993) by S.I. 1992/3325, art. 2