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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/local-authorities-england-property-etc-order-1973/schedule-2/paragraph-4",
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  "legislation": "uksi/1973/1861",
  "legislation_title": "The Local Authorities (England) (Property etc.) Order 1973",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/local-authorities-england-property-etc-order-1973",
  "path": "schedule/2/paragraph/4",
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  "number": "4",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "Article 12 has effect, within the meaning of items 5, 10, 11, 12, 14 and 15 in the table in this Schedule, in relation to any property, where before 1st April 1974, in respect of such property—\nan agreement has been entered into under paragraph (3), (4) or (5) of that article;\na determination has been given under paragraph (7) of that article;\nnotice has been given under paragraph (3) of article 39.\nand in relation to any liabilities incurred, contracts, deeds, bonds, agreements and other instruments subsisting, notices given, actions and proceedings pending and causes of action or proceeding existing in relation to such property.\nTABLE\n(1)\n(2)\n(3)\n(4)\nItem No.\nTransferor authority\nMatters transferred\nTransferee authority\n1\nThe county council of any county\nProperty acquired by the county council in the exercise of their functions under the Rural Water Supplies and Sewerage Act 1944 or in making contributions to a county district council in respect of works of water supply or sewerage or sewage disposal in any area\nThe water authority in whose area for sewerage and sewage disposal purposes the area described in column (3) is situated\n2\nThe County Council of Devon\nNational park matters in respect of the Exmoor National Park\nThe County Council of Somerset\n3\nThe County Council of Yorkshire, West Riding\nNational park matters in relation to the area of the Yorkshire Dales National Park in Cumbria\nThe County Council of North Yorkshire\n4\nThe County Council of Yorkshire, North Riding\nNational park matters in relation to the area of the North York Moors National Park in Cleveland\nThe County Council of North Yorkshire\n5\nThe county council of Berkshire, Buckingham, Chester, Durham, East Suffolk, East Sussex, Gloucestershire, Hampshire, Lancaster, Lincoln, Parts of Lindsey, Northumberland, Nottinghamshire, Somerset, Staffordshire, Surrey, Warwickshire, Worcestershire, Yorkshire, East Riding, Yorkshire, North Riding or Yorkshire, West Riding\nDistrict matters in relation to any area of the county included in a new district\nOther local matters (not being police matters, matters as to which article 12 has effect or matters provided for in items 1, 3 and 4) in relation to any area of the county included in a new county\nThe council of the district in which the area is comprised\nThe council of the county in which the area is comprised\n6.\nThe county council of Rutland\nDistrict matters\nThe District Council of Rutland\n7.\nThe county council of any county not included in items 5 and 6\nDistrict matters in relation to any area of the county included in a new district\nThe council of the district in which the area is comprised\n8.\nThe county council of any county other than Rutland\nLand situated outside the county falling within the definition of district matters\nThe council of the district specified in respect of the county council in column (3) of Part I of Schedule 4\n9.\nThe corporation or council of any county borough\nCounty matters\nThe council of the county in which the area of the county borough is comprised\n10.\nThe corporation or council of the county borough of Teesside\nLocal matters other than county matters, police matters, sewerage and sewage disposal matters or matters as to which article 12 has effect in relation to any area of the county borough included in a new district\nThe council of the district in which the area is comprised\n11.\nThe corporation or council of the borough of Whitley Bay or the council of the urban district of Ashton-in-Makerfield, Billinge-and-Winstanley, Golborne, Ramsbottom, Seaton Valley or Turton\nCounty matters in relation to any area of the borough or district included in a new county\nParish matters in relation to any area of the borough or district constituting a parish\nOther local matters (not being sewerage and sewage disposal matters or matters as to which article 12 has effect) in relation to any area of the borough or district included in a new district\nThe council of the county in which the area is comprised\nThe parish council of the parish\nThe council of the district in which the area is comprised\nLand situated outside the borough or district falling within the definition of county matters\nThe council of the county in which the district specified in respect of the corporation or council in Part II of Schedule 4 is comprised\n12.\nThe council of the urban district of Lakes, Queensbury and Shelf or Thurrock\nCounty matters\nParish matters in relation to any area of the urban district constituting a parish\nOther local matters (not being sewerage and sewage disposal matters or matters as to which article 12 has effect) in relation to any area of the urban district included in a new district\nThe council of the county in which the area of the urban district is comprised\nThe parish council of the parish\nThe council of the district in which the area is comprised\n13.\nThe corporation or council of any non-county borough or the council of any urban district not included in items 11 and 12\nCounty matters\nWhere a parish is constituted under Part V of Schedule 1 to the Act, parish matters, and the historic and ceremonial property and in particular the charters, insignia and plate, of the borough or district\nThe council of the county in which the area of the borough or district is comprised\nThe parish council of the parish\n14.\nThe council of the rural district of Axbridge, Bridlington, Bucklow, Castle Ward, Chester-le-Street, Clutton, Dorking and Horley, Easington, East Retford, Eton, Hemsworth, Lothingland, Meriden, Osgoldcross, Ringwood and Fordingbridge, Skipton, Sodbury, Stokesley, Stratford-on-Avon, Tadcaster, Thornbury, Wantage, West Lancashire, Wetherby, Wharfedale, Whiston, Wigan or Worksop\nCounty matters in relation to any area of the district included in a new county\nOther local matters (not being sewerage and sewage disposal matters or matters in respect of which article 12 has effect) in relation to any area of the district included in a new district\nLand situated outside the rural district falling within the definition of county matters\nThe council of the county in which the area is comprised\nThe council of the district in which the area is comprised\nThe council of the county in which the district of the council specified in respect or the council of the rural district in column (2) of Part II of Schedule 4 is comprised\n15.\nThe council of the rural district of Basford, Blackburn, Blofield and Flegg, Brixworth, Burnley, Chelmsford, Chesterfield, Chichester, Croft, Cuckfield, Darlington, Dartford, Droitwich, Eastry, Epping and Ongar, Gloucester, Hertford, Kettering, Lichfield, Market Bosworth, Norman Cross, Northampton, Pershore, Preston, Runcorn, St. Albans, St. Thomas, Shifnal, South East Derbyshire, Stockton, Strood, Thirsk, Tonbridge, Watford, Wellingborough, Winchester, Winslow, Worthing or Wortley\nCounty matters\nOther local matters (not being sewerage and sewage disposal matters or matters in respect of which article 12 has effect) in relation to any area of the district included in a new district\nThe council of the county in which the area of the rural district is comprised\nThe council of the district in which the area is comprised\n16.\nThe council of the rural district of Alston with Garrigill, Disley or Tintwistle\nCounty matters\nParish matters\nThe council of the county in which the area of the district is comprised\nThe parish council of the parish co-extensive with the district\n17.\nThe council of any rural district not included in items 14–16\nCounty matters\nThe council of the county in which the area of the district is comprised\n18.\nThe parish authority of any divided parish\nIn the case of the divided parish of Abbots Langley, Birtley, Blagdon, Brafield-on-the Green, Burrington, Great Houghton, Harworth, Milton Malsor, Rothersthorpe, Shifnal or Sopley\n(a) Burial matters\nThe parish councils of the parishes, or where there is no parish the council of the district, in which parts of the area of the parish are comprised\nIn all cases\n(b) Subject to (a), local matters in relation to any area of the parish included in any parish\nThe parish authority of the parish in which the area is comprised\n(c) Subject to (a), local matters in relation to any other area of the parish\nThe council of the district in which the area is comprised\n19.\nThe corporation or council of any borough or the council of any urban district or rural district\n(a) Rights acquired or liabilities incurred in relation to the cost of construction in any area of any public sewer or sewage disposal works constructed under powers other than the Public Health Act 1936 or enactments replaced by that Act 1936 prior to its declaration as a public sewer or sewage disposal works\n(b) Subject to (a), where the area of the borough, urban district or rural district is comprised in the area for sewerage and sewage disposal purposes of one water authority, sewerage and sewage disposal matters\n(c) Subject to (a), where the area of the borough, urban district or rural district is comprised in the area for sewerage and sewage disposal purposes of two or more water authorities, sewerage and sewage disposal matters being local matters in relation to any area of the borough, urban district or rural district comprised in the area of a water authority\nThe authority exercising such powers in that area on and after 1st April 1974\nThe water authority\nThe water authority\n20.\nThe Avon and Dorset River Authority\nLocal matters in relation to any part of the area of the Authority included in the Wessex or South West Water Authority's area\nThe Wessex or South West Water Authority\n21.\nThe Essex River Authority\nLocal matters in relation to any part of the area of the Authority included in the Anglian or Thames Water Authority's area\nThe Anglian or Thames Water Authority\n22.\nThe Kent River Authority\nLocal matters in respect of functions other than land drainage in relation to any part of the area of the Authority included in the Southern or Thames Water Authority's area\nThe Southern or Thames Water Authority\n23.\nThe Severn River Authority\nLocal matters in respect of functions other than land drainage and fisheries in relation to any part of the area of the Authority included in the Severn-Trent or Wessex Water Authority's area\nThe Severn-Trent or Wessex Water Authority",
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