Local Government (Records) Act 1962

7 Minor amendments.

(1) Subsection (4) of section one hundred and forty-four A of the Law of Property Act, 1922, and subsection (2) of section thirty-six of the Tithe Act, 1936 (which respectively empower the Master of the Rolls to direct the transfer to the Public Record Office, or to a public library or museum or historical or antiquarian society, of manorial documents and copies of instruments of apportionment) shall apply in relation to a local authority as they apply in relation to a public library and the governing body of a public library.

(2) Section two hundred and seventy-nine of the Local Government Act, 1933, shall be amended as follows—

(a) in subsection (1) (which provides that certain records are to be in the custody of the clerk of a county council and kept as the council direct) for the words from " shall be in the custody" to the end there shall be substituted the words " shall, subject to any directions which the council may give, be in the charge and custody of the clerk of the county council who, subject to any such directions, shall be responsible therefor. ";

(b) in subsection (2) (which empowers a borough council or district council to give general directions as to custody of records) the word " general" is hereby repealed.