Prospective
11(1)Where for any year, a Rate Support Grant Report under section 60 of the M1Local Government, Planning and Land Act 1980, or a supplementary report under section 61 of that Act, has effect to determine the amount of supplementary grants to be paid under section 7 of the M2Local Government Act 1974 to the council of a county or county borough in Wales, and at any time—E+W+S
(a)after that report or, as the case may be, that supplementary report is approved by a resolution of the House of Commons, but
(b)not later than the end of that year,
a body corporate constituted as a National Park planning board for a National Park the whole or any part of which is included in that county or county borough becomes the National Park authority for that National Park by virtue of section 64 of this Act, those supplementary grants shall, subject to the provisions of any, or any further, such supplementary report, continue to be paid for that year notwithstanding that that body corporate has ceased to be a National Park planning board.
(2)In this paragraph—
“National Park planning board” has the meaning given by section 64(9) of this Act; and
“year” means a period of 12 months beginning with 1st April.
12(1)Nothing in this Act shall prevent the completion on or after the transfer date by a Local Commissioner of any investigation which he began to conduct before that date and which is an investigation under Part III of the M3Local Government Act 1974 in pursuance of a complaint made in relation to the National Rivers Authority.E+W+S
(2)Nothing in this Act shall prevent the making on or after the transfer date of a complaint under Part III of that Act in respect of any action which was taken by or on behalf of the National Rivers Authority before that date.
(3)Notwithstanding the amendment of Part III of that Act by paragraph 18 of Schedule 22 to this Act, the provisions of that Part shall have effect on and after the transfer date in relation to any complaint to which sub-paragraph (1) or (2) above applies and to its investigation as they would have had effect before that date; but, in relation to any such complaint, the Agency shall on and after that date stand in the place of the National Rivers Authority for the purposes of this paragraph.