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Local Employment Act 1972

1972 c. 5 · Enacted 10 February 1972 · Extends to England, Wales and Scotland

Up to date with all changes known to legislation.gov.uk, revised to 5 November 1993.

An Act to consolidate, with certain exceptions, the provisions of the Local Employment Acts 1960 to 1971.

[10th February 1972]

Contents

  1. Development areas and intermediate areas
  2. 1. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Repealed
  3. Powers for provision of employment
  4. 2. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Repealed
  5. 3, 4. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Repealed
  6. 5. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Repealed
  7. 6. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Repealed
  8. Powers for contributing to development of industry
  9. 7. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Repealed
  10. 8. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Repealed
  11. 9. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Repealed
  12. Industrial estates corporations
  13. 10. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Repealed
  14. 11Section 11
  15. 12. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Repealed
  16. 13, 14. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Repealed
  17. 15. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Repealed
  18. Supplementary provisions
  19. 16—18. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Repealed
  20. 19Transitional provisions.
  21. 20. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Repealed
  22. 21Interpretation.
  23. 22Consequential amendments, repeals and savings.
  24. 23Short title, commencement and extent.
  25. Schedule 1Schedule 1
  26. Schedule 2: Transitional Provisions
  27. Part I: Provisions relating to coming into force of Local Employment Act 1960
  28. Pension schemes of industrial estates companies
  29. 1Paragraph 1
  30. 2Paragraph 2 Repealed
  31. 3Paragraph 3 Repealed
  32. Part II: Provisions relating to coming into force of Part II of Industrial Development Act 1966
  33. 4Paragraph 4 Repealed
  34. Re-naming of industrial estates corporations
  35. 5Paragraph 5
  36. Part III
  37. 6Paragraph 6 Repealed
  38. Part IV
  39. 7Paragraph 7 Repealed
  40. 8Paragraph 8 Repealed
  41. Part V: Other Provisions
  42. 9—10Paragraph 9—10 Repealed
  43. Schedule 3: CONSEQUENTIAL AMENDMENTS
  44. Paragraph Repealed
  45. Paragraph Repealed
  46. Paragraph Repealed
  47. Paragraph Repealed
  48. Paragraph Repealed
  49. The Industrial Development Act 1966
  50. Paragraph Repealed
  51. Paragraph Repealed
  52. The Finance Act 1970
  53. Paragraph
  54. Paragraph Repealed
  55. Paragraph Repealed
  56. Schedule 4Schedule 4

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19Transitional provisions.

The provisions of Schedule 2 to this Act shall have effect in relation to the matters there dealt with . . . F1

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21Interpretation.

(1)

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(2)

For the purposes of this Act Monmouthshire shall be deemed to be part of Wales.

(3)

Except where the context otherwise requires, in this Act any reference to any enactment shall be construed as a reference to that enactment as amended, and as including a reference thereto as extended or applied, by any other enactment.

22Consequential amendments, repeals and savings.

C1(1)

The enactments specified in Schedule 3 to this Act shall have effect subject to the amendments there specified.

(2)

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(5)

Nothing in this section shall be construed as affecting the general application of section 38 of the M1Interpretation Act 1889 with respect to the effect of repeals.

23Short title, commencement and extent.

(1)

This Act may be cited as the Local Employment Act 1972.

(2)

This Act shall come into force at the expiration of the period of one month beginning with the day on which it is passed.

(3)

This Act does not extend to Northern Ireland.

Schedule 1F1

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(1)

The following provisions of this paragraph shall have effect as respects any pension, superannuation or life-assurance scheme or fund in force on 1st April 1960 for the benefit of persons in the employment or former employment of any of the following companies, that is to say—

  • North Eastern Trading Estates Limited

  • Wales and Monmouthshire Industrial Estates Limited

  • The West Cumberland Industrial Development Company Limited

  • Scottish Industrial Estates Limited

  • North Western Industrial Estates Limited.

(2)

Anything authorised or required to be done for the purposes of the scheme or fund on or after 1st April 1960 which, apart from this paragraph, would fall to be done by, with or to the company or its directors shall be treated as falling to be done by, with or to the industrial estates corporation acting for the part of Great Britain in which the company exercised its functions.

(3)

For the purposes of the scheme or fund, employment on or after 1st April 1960 by the said corporation shall be treated as equivalent to employment by the company, and employment on or after that date by the company shall be disregarded.

(4)

Any requirement to do anything for the said purposes at the registered office of the company shall be treated, in relation to things falling to be done on or after 1st April 1960, as a requirement to do that thing at the head office of the said industrial estates corporation.

(5)

References in any deed, rules or other document to the company shall be construed as, or as including, references to the said industrial estates corporation as may be required for giving effect to, or in consequence of, the foregoing provisions of this paragraph.

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In any enactment or instrument passed or made before 19th August 1966, for any reference to an industrial estates corporation by its original name (that is, the name given to it by section 8 of the M1Local Employment Act 1960) there shall be substituted a reference to that corporation by the new name given to it by section 19(1) of the M2Industrial Development Act 1966 (that is, the appropriate name specified in section 10(1) of this Act).

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For subsection (3) of section 15 of the Finance Act 1970 there shall be subsituted the following subsection—

“(3)

For the purposes of subsection (2) above “development area” and “intermediate area” have the same meaning as in the Local Employment Act 1972.”

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Schedule 4F1

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