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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/london-authorities-children-order-1965/article-15",
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  "legislation": "uksi/1965/554",
  "legislation_title": "The London Authorities (Children) Order 1965",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/london-authorities-children-order-1965",
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  "number": "15",
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  "text": "(1) A successor authority which has been notified by the council of a dissolved county or of an altered county under the foregoing provisions of this Order and which is of opinion that another successor authority should have been notified in accordance with the foregoing provisions of this Order or that, in the case of notification by the council of an altered county, no successor authority should have been notified may, within two months of being so notified, apply to the Secretary of State to determine whether that other successor authority or, as the case may be, no successor authority should have been notified in accordance with the said provisions:\nProvided that this paragraph shall not apply as respects any matter which has been dealt with under Article 5, 6(3) or 13(1) of this Order.\n(2) A successor authority notified as aforesaid may, within two months of being notified, agree with any other successor authority that—\n(a) any person transferred to their care or supervision or whose care may be taken over by them in pursuance of the foregoing provisions of this Order, or\n(b) any function, power, right or liability vested in or attaching to them or which may be vested in or attached to them in pursuance of the foregoing provisions of this Order, or\n(c) any appointment of their children's officer as guardian ad litem in an application for an adoption order under the Adoption Act 1958 in pursuance of the foregoing provisions of this Order,\nbe transferred to, vested in or attached to that other successor authority or their children's officer, as the case may be:\nProvided that this paragraph shall not apply as respects any matter which has been dealt with under Article 13(1) of this Order.\n(3) Where the Secretary of State determines that another successor authority should have been notified by the council of a dissolved county or where a successor authority notified by the county of a dissolved county agrees with any other successor authority under paragraph (2) of this Article—\n(a) that other successor authority may, not later than 31st March 1966, take over the person, function, power, right or liability that is the subject of the determination or agreement,\n(b) any expenses duly incurred after 31st March 1965 by the council notified as aforesaid in connection with that person, function, power, right or liability, including any travelling or other expenses incurred in connection with the transfer of his care to that other successor authority, may be recovered from that other successor authority.\n(4) Where, before a person, function, power, right or liability mentioned in paragraph (3)(a) of this Article is taken over in accordance with that sub-paragraph, the person ceases to be in care or the function, power, right or liability is varied, including variation by reason of the reception back into care of a person to whom such a function, power, right or liability relates, the said sub-paragraph shall apply as if the changed circumstances had existed immediately before the determination or agreement and had been dealt with in the same way as the matters which were the subject of the determination or agreement.\n(5) Where the Secretary of State determines that another successor authority should have been notified by the council of an altered county, or where a successor authority notified by the council of an altered county agrees with any other successor authority under paragraph (2) of this Article, that other successor authority and no other shall be deemed to have been for the purposes of this Order the successor authority that was notified.\n(6) Where the Secretary of State determines that no successor authority should have been notified, it shall be deemed that no successor authority has been notified for the purposes of this Order.\n(7) Subject to the foregoing provisions of this Article, where a successor authority has been notified by a dissolved county council concerning the appointment of their children's officer as guardian ad litem for the purposes of an application for an adoption order under the Adoption Act 1958, that children's officer shall, for the purposes of the foregoing provisions of this Order, be deemed to have been duly appointed guardian ad litem for the purposes of that application.\n(8) Subject to the foregoing provisions of this Article, a successor authority which has been notified by a dissolved county council shall be deemed to be the authority to which for the purposes of the foregoing provisions of this Order, the persons, functions, powers, rights and liabilities therein mentioned are, on 1st April 1965, transferred.",
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  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
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