Article 4 Community councils

(1)

For the purpose of securing the admission of representatives of the press and other members of the public to the meetings of community councils from the coming into office of councillors thereof until 1st April 1974, such councils shall be bodies to which the Public Bodies (Admission to Meetings) Act 1960 applies.

(2)

For the purpose of securing that financial loss, travelling and subsistence allowances are payable, and that the expenses of conferences can be defrayed, in respect of members of community councils or of committees or joint committees thereof, including in either case sub-committees, from their coming into office until 1st April 1974, the following provisions, namely—

(a)

section 267 of the Local Government Act 1933 (conferences of local authorities); and

(b)

Part VI of the Local Government Act 1948 (allowances to members of local authorities and other bodies),

shall apply until the said date as if the said councils were—

(i)

in the case of (a), local authorities within the meaning of the said Act of 1933; and

(ii)

in the case of (b), councils of rural parishes.