The area of any district in Wales which, immediately before 1st April 1996, was a designated district for the purposes of the M1Inner Urban Areas Act 1978 by virtue of an order under section 1(1) of that Act shall, subject to any further provision made by or under that Act, continue to be a designated district for those purposes.

The designated district authority in relation to any such designated district which comprises or falls wholly within a new principal area shall be the council of that area.

Where any such designated district falls partly within the areas of two or more new principal councils, each of those councils shall be the designated district authority in relation to the part of the designated district that falls within their area.