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The Local Statutory Provisions (Postponement of Repeal) (Scotland) Order 1988

S.I. 1988/2106 · Made 1 December 1988

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LOCAL GOVERNMENT, SCOTLAND

Made 1st December 1988

Laid before Parliament 9th December 1988

Coming into force 31st December 1988

The Secretary of State, in exercise of the powers conferred on him by section 225(6)(b) of the Local Government (Scotland) Act 1973 f1, and of all other powers enabling him in that behalf, hereby makes the following Order:

Annotations to the whole text

Footnotes

f1

1973 c. 65; section 225(6) was amended by the Civic Government (Scotland) Act 1982 (c. 45), section 134(1).

Contents

  1. 1Article 1
  2. 2Article 2
  3. 3Article 3
  4. Signature
  5. Schedule Schedule
  6. Explanatory note

1

This Order may be cited as the Local Statutory Provisions (Postponement of Repeal) (Scotland) Order 1988 and shall come into force on 31st December 1988.

2

In this Order “the Act” means the Local Government (Scotland) Act 1973. “local statutory provision” means any local Statutory provision to which section 225(6) of the Act applies.

3

The date on which all local statutory provisions applying to the whole or any part of the local government areas specified in the Schedule to this Order, so far as they apply, are to cease to have effect under section 225(6) of the Act is hereby postponed to 31st December 1989.

Signature

James Douglas-Hamilton

Parliamentary Under Secretary of State, Scottish Office

St Andrew’s House,

Edinburgh

1st December 1988

  • Strathclyde Region

  • City of Dundee District

  • City of Edinburgh District

Explanatory note

(This note is not part of the Order)

Section 225(6) of the Local Government (Scotland) Act 1973 as amended provides that all local statutory provisions to which the subsection applies shall cease to have effect at the end of 1984. Previous Orders (S.I. 1984/1926, 1985/1629. 1986/2034 and 1987/2090) have postponed until the end of 1988 the date on which such local statutory provisions applying to the local government areas or parts thereof listed in the Schedules to those Orders were to cease to have effect. This Order further postpones that date until the end of 1989 in respect of those local government areas listed in the Schedule to this Order.