Article 17

Any successor authority may on and after 1st April 1965 exercise the powers conferred by section 58 of the Children and Young Persons Act 1963 in respect of a person who before that date had been in the care of the council of a dissolved county or county borough.

As respects a person who before 1st April 1965 had been in the care of the council of an altered county, any successor authority may with the consent of that council exercise on and after that date the powers conferred by the said section 58, without prejudice to the exercise of those powers by that council.