The Local Government Area Changes Regulations 1976

Registration—General

48.—(1) Subject to paragraph (2), in this regulation—

“register” means any register under any enactment, rule, order or regulation and includes any index of local charities maintained under section 10 of the Charities Act 1960;

“registration” means inclusion in any register; and

“exemption” means exemption from any obligation in respect of registration.

(2) This regulation does not extend to—

(a)any register of parliamentary and local government electors;

(b)any register of births, marriages or deaths;

(c)any register maintained under the Local Authorities' Cemeteries Order 1974;

(d)any register to which regulation 49 applies.

(3) Immediately before the appointed day the proper officer of any dissolved authority shall deliver any register of the authority to the proper officer of the following authority, namely—

(a)if the register is not appropriate for the residuary successor of the dissolved authority and is appropriate for one other authority only, to that authority;

(b)in any other case, to the residuary successor of the dissolved authority.

(4) As soon as may be after the appointed day the proper officer of any authority shall—

(a)send to the proper officer of any other authority a copy of every entry in any register of the authority by whom he is employed or received by him under paragraph (3)(b) which is appropriate for the register of that other authority; and

(b)incorporate or include in the appropriate register of the authority by whom he is employed, with any necessary modifications—

(i)the entries in the registers delivered to him under paragraph (3)(b) of which copies have not been sent, under (a), to the proper officer of any other authority; and

(ii)the particulars of every entry furnished to him under (a) in its application to the proper officer of any other authority,

and every entry so incorporated or included shall continue in force as fully and effectively as if it had originally been made in the register in which it is incorporated or included.

Where any register is kept in such manner that the entries therein are separable, (a) may be complied with, as regards any entry, by sending the entry to the proper officer specified therein, and if the entry is so sent (b)(ii) may be complied with, as regards that entry, by the inclusion of the entry in the appropriate register.

(5) Any application made before the appointed day for registration in any register, or for exemption from any obligation in respect of inclusion in such register, which concerns or has effect in relation to any area transferred from the authority to whom the application is made or to any person, property, matter or thing therein, shall be treated as having been made to the authority for whose register the application is appropriate.

(6) Any order, decision, notice or certificate made, taken, given or issued before the appointed day by any authority in relation to—

• any entry in any register of the authority; or

• any application for registration or exemption,

which concerns or has effect in relation to any area transferred from such authority shall have effect as if it had been made, taken, given or issued by the authority in whose register the entry falls to be incorporated or included or in relation to whose register the application is appropriate.

(7) Paragraphs (5) and (6) shall have effect in relation to any area transferred within a county, or within Greater London, in relation to matters which on and after the appointed day are appropriate for the register of an authority other than the county council or the Greater London Council, as if the area had been transferred from the county, or from Greater London.