Article 23 Activities preliminary to the exercise of functions

Where, during the preliminary period, a transferor authority is required by virtue of any enactment to prepare any budgets or plans, or to consult any person, for purposes connected with the exercise, on and after the reorganisation date, of any functions in relation to any part of the area of a transferee authority which, on and after that date, are exercisable by that transferee authority, the requirement in question shall, subject to any other relevant provision, cease to have effect during that period in relation to the transferor authority; and any such requirement shall instead have effect, during that period and for those purposes, in relation to the transferee authority.