PART 4Additional Functions

Incidental provisions11

The following provisions shall have effect as if the GMCA were a local authority for the purposes of these provisions—

a

section 142(2) of the Local Government Act 197214 (the power to arrange for publication of information etc. relating to the functions of the authority); and

b

section 222 of the Local Government Act 1972 (the power to instigate and defend legal proceedings).