Miscellaneous amendments of public general and other Acts and instruments4.
(1)
“save as aforesaid, means”there shall be substituted—
“in relation to a non-metropolitan county, the council of the county, and
in relation to a metropolitan district, the council of the district”.
In the said Act, in section 118 (Application to Isles of Scilly), for “a separate county”
there shall be substituted “a separate non-metropolitan county”
.
(2)
In the Representation of the People Act 1949, in section 23, in subsection (7) (postal voting) as amended by the Local Government Act 1958 and the Representation of the People Act 1969, for “rural borough or parish councillors”
there shall be substituted “parish or community councillors”
.
(3)
In the Compulsory Purchase Act 1965, in section 27 (acquiring authority to make good deficiency in rates), in subsection (4), the words preceding “the amount”
shall be omitted.
(4)
In the Town and Country Planning Act 1971, in section 290(1), in the definition of “authority possessing compulsory purchase powers”—
after “parish council”
there shall be inserted “, community council”
; and
after “on whose behalf a”
there shall be inserted “district council or”
.
(5)
“1.
The Education Act 1944 shall apply to the Isles of Scilly as if those Isles were a separate non-metropolitan county:”.