# The Local Government (Children) Order 1974, Article 3


Subject to the provisions of article 8 of this order, a person in the care of, detained by or under the supervision of a dissolved authority immediately before the specified date in pursuance of an order made by a court or by a power exercised by such an authority under an enactment specified in column 2 of the following table shall on the specified date be transferred to the care or supervision of the successor authority specified opposite thereto in column 3 of the said table.
TABLE
1
2
3
Enactment under which person is in care or under supervision
Successor authority to whom person is transferred into care or under supervision
1
Section 1(1) of the Children Act 1948.
The successor authority in whose area the place from which the person was received into care is on the specified date situate.
2
Section 1(4) of the said Act of 1948
The successor authority in whose area the place of ordinary residence of the person as determined for the purpose of the said section 1(4) is on the specified date situate.
3
Section 1 of the said Act of 1948 as applied by section 7(4) of the Children Act 1958 or by section 43(3) of the Adoption Act 1958.
The successor authority in whose area the place from which the person was received into care is on the specified date situate.
4
Section 1(3)(b) of the Children and Young Persons Act 1969.
The successor authority which has succeeded to the local authority designated in the supervision order.
5
Section 1(3)(c) of the Children and Young Persons Act 1969.
The successor authority in whose area the person appears to reside or the place where the circumstances giving rise to the proceedings arose is on the specified date situate.
6
Section 2(5) of the Children and Young Persons Act 1969.
The successor authority in whose area the person appears to the court to reside, the place where the offence was committed or any circumstances arose in consequence of which the order is made, is on the specified date situate.
7
Section 29(3) of the Children and Young Persons Act 1969.
The successor authority in whose area the place where the person was arrested is on the specified date situate.
8
Section 30(1) of the Children and Young Persons Act 1969.
The successor authority providing or responsible for the community home specified in the direction.
9
Section 2(1)(e) of the Matrimonial Proceedings (Magistrates' Courts) Act 1960.
The successor authority in whose area the place where the person was in the opinion of the court resident immediately before being committed is on the specified date situate.
10
Section 2(1)(f)(ii) of the Matrimonial Proceedings (Magistrates' Courts) Act 1960.
The successor authority which has succeeded to the local authority specified in the matrimonial order.
11
Section 36 of the Matrimonial Causes Act 1965.
The successor authority in whose area in the opinion of the court making the order the place where the child was resident at the time of the order is on the specified date situate.
12
Section 37 of the Matrimonial Causes Act 1965.
The successor authority which has succeeded to the local authority designated in the supervision order.
13
Section 7(2) of the Family Law Reform Act 1969.
The successor authority in whose area in the opinion of the court making the order the place where the child was resident at the time of the order is on the specified date situate.
14
Section 7(4) of the Family Law Reform Act 1969.
The successor authority which has succeeded to the local authority designated in the supervision order.
15
Section 2(2)(a) of the Guardianship Act 1973.
The successor authority which has succeeded to the dissolved authority specified in the order.
16
Section 2(2)(b) of the Guardianship Act 1973.
The successor authority which has succeeded to the dissolved authority specified in the order.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1974/39/article/3 (the official version)
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