3.  In the Local Government Act 1972—

(a) for section 67(5)(c) there shall be substituted—

“(c) the total number of councillors, the apportionment of councillors among electoral areas, the assignment of existing councillors to new or altered electoral areas and the first election of councillors for any new or altered electoral area;”;

(b) in section 81(3)(a), for “, deputy chairman or an alderman” there shall be substituted “or deputy chairman”;

(c) the following, namely—

• in section 83(1), “, alderman or”; section 87(1)(g);

• in section 88(1), “or of any alderman”; section 173(5); and

• in Schedule 12, Part I, paragraph 5(2), “or an alderman”

shall be omitted.