Article 4
On 1st April 1996, all rights and liabilities (including those in connection with legal proceedings) of Cleveland County Council, in its capacity prior to that date as the relevant council for the purposes of the 1988 Act for coroners—
(a)
in the existing Central Cleveland Coroner’s District of the County of Cleveland shall be transferred to Middlesbrough Borough Council in its capacity as the relevant council for those purposes for coroners in the coroner’s district constituted by article 2(1) above; and
(b)
in the existing North Cleveland Coroner’s District of the County of Cleveland shall be transferred to Hartlepool Borough Council in its capacity as the relevant council for those purposes for coroners in the County of Hartlepool.