3.—(1) Stoke shall cease to form part of Staffordshire.
(2) A new county shall be constituted comprising the area of Stoke and shall be named the county of Stoke-on-Trent.
(3) Section 2(1) of the 1972 Act (which provides that every county shall have a council) shall not apply in relation to the county of Stoke-on-Trent.
4. Each area marked B1 and B2 on the map shall be transferred from—
(a)Staffordshire;
(b)the borough of Stafford;
(c)the Barlaston ward of that borough;
(d)the parish of Barlaston;
to—
(i)the county of Stoke-on-Trent;
(ii)Stoke;
(iii)the Blurton ward of Stoke;
and shall become unparished.