4.—(1) The records specified in paragraph (2) shall not be treated as public records for the purposes of the Public Records Act 1958(1).
(2) The records are—
(a)records held by the Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions and transferred to him by a transfer scheme under section 409 of the 1999 Act made in consequence of any of the following provisions of that Act—
(i)section 349 (abolition of joint planning committee for Greater London);
(ii)section 374 (abolition of London Ecology Committee);
(iii)section 396(10) (revocation of scheme about research and collection of information under section 88(1) of the Local Government Act 1985(2)); and
(b)records created before 3rd July 2000 by persons who entered the employment of the Secretary of State pursuant to any such transfer scheme—
(i)exclusively in connection with any purpose of the 1999 Act, and
(ii)before 3rd July 2000.
1958 c. 51. “Public records” are defined in section 10 and Schedule 1.