Explanatory note

This Order makes provision (articles 4 and 5)—

(a)

for the application of the Public Bodies (Admission to Meetings) Act 1960 to the new county and district councils;

(b)

for the payment of allowances under the Local Government Act 1948, and the expenses of certain visits and conferences, in respect of members of such councils,

in both cases from the coming into office of the councillors until 1st April 1974, when the provisions of the Local Government Act 1972 will be applicable.

The order also makes transitional provision:—

(a)

enabling the time of the first meetings of the new county and district councils to be varied (article 3);

(b)

fixing the number of councillors of parish councils (article 6);

(c)

applying the provision which will not allow postal voting at the elections of community councillors after 1st April 1974 to the first elections of such councillors (article 7);

(d)

deferring the appointments of school managers and governors which would normally be made after the county council elections in April 1973 (article 8); and

(e)

linking the retirement of mayors elected in 1972 to the annual meetings of the borough councils in 1973 (article 9); and

(f)

for the protection of officers appointed to hold office before or as from 1st April 1974.