Article 4 Transitional provisions

Any direction under section 40(4) of the Act of 1970 (reorganisation of smallholdings estates) in force immediately before 1st April 1974 in relation to a transferor authority shall as from that date have effect as a direction exempting the transferee authority to whom land comprising the whole or any part of the smallholdings estate of the transferor authority was transferred from the duty to submit proposals under section 40 of that Act in respect of that land and, in relation to any such transferee authority, section 40(1) and (2) of that Act as applied by section 42(6) of that Act (revocation of exemption direction) shall have effect as if for any reference therein howsoever expressed to a smallholdings authority's smallholdings estate there were substituted a reference to such part of the transferee authority's smallholdings estate as comprises the land transferred under the Act to that authority from the transferor authority to whom the direction was given.

Any proposals submitted to the Minister under section 40 of the Act of 1970 by a transferor authority and approved by him under section 41 of that Act (approval of reorganisation proposals) and in force immediately before 1st April 1974 as originally approved, and any proposals so submitted and approved which before that date have been amended by proposals approved by the Minister under section 43 of that Act (proposals otherwise than in connection with reviews) and were in force immediately before that date as so amended, shall for the purposes of sections 41(6), 42, 43, 44(4) and (5), 50 and 51 of that Act have effect as from 1st April 1974 as proposals of the transferee authority approved by the Minister in relation only to the land formerly held by the transferor authority for the purposes of smallholdings and transferred under the Act to the transferee authority.

As from 1st April 1974, subsections (3) to (8) of section 43 of the Act of 1970 (submission of proposals by exempt smallholdings authorities) shall, in their application to any smallholdings authority, have effect only with respect to the land transferred under the Act to a transferee authority from a transferor authority to whom a direction given by the Minister under section 40(4) of that Act was in force immediately before 1st April 1974.

In relation to, and for the purpose of, the making by a smallholdings authority on or after 1st April 1974 of an application to the Minister under section 51(2) of the Act of 1970 (increase of certain capital grants) in a case where the relevant proposals (as defined in that section) were submitted to the Minister under section 43 of that Act before 1st April 1974 by a transferor authority, such relevant proposals shall be treated as having been submitted to the Minister by the transferee authority to whom the land to which the relevant proposals relate has been transferred under the Act.

For the purposes of any report to be submitted to the Minister under section 59(1) of the Act of 1970 (annual reports) during the year commencing on 1st April 1974 by a smallholdings authority other than the Greater London Council, the reference in the said section to the proceedings of the authority during the preceding financial year shall be construed as a reference to the proceedings during the financial year ending on 31st March 1974 of the transferor authority or authorities the whole or part of whose respective smallholdings estates have been transferred under the Act to that smallholdings authority but in so far only as such proceedings relate to land so transferred or to land which, if it had not been sold, exchanged or appropriated for other purposes by the transferor authority during the said financial year ending on 31st March 1974, would have been so transferred to that smallholdings authority.