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(1)After the appointed day overseers shall cease to be appointed, and His Majesty may by Order in Council to be made at any time after the passing of this Act provide, subject to the provisions of this Act, for the transfer as from the appointed day to rating authorities, or such other local authorities or persons as seems expedient, of the powers and duties of and any property vested in overseers, and any such Order may contain such supplemental and consequential provisions as appear to His Majesty to be necessary or expedient to make in connection with the abolition of the office of overseer.
(2)His Majesty may refer to a committee of the Privy Council the appointment of persons to prepare the drafts of Orders to be made under this section, and before any such Order is made the draft thereof shall be laid before both Houses of Parliament, and if either House within the next subsequent twenty days on which that House has sat next after the draft is laid before it presents an Address to His Majesty against the draft, or any part thereof, no further proceedings shall be taken thereon, but without prejudice to the making of any new Order.
(3)Any reference in any Act or document to overseers in relation to any of their powers or duties shall be construed as references to the rating authority or to the other persons to whom those powers or duties are transferred by or in pursuance of this Act.
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