Vehicle and Driving Licences Act 1969

3Interim provisions with respect to functions of local authorities

(1)The Minister may, at any time before the transfer date, by order provide that any relevant functions shall, as respects any area specified in the order, be exercisable by a local authority so specified instead of by the authority by whom they would be exercisable apart from the order.

(2)Where at any time before the transfer date a local authority is to cease to be a local authority and it appears to the Minister that, having regard to the provisions of section 1 of this Act, it is expedient to prevent that event from affecting the exercise of any of the relevant functions, he may by order direct that the relevant functions shall, except so far as the order otherwise provides, be exercised after that event as if it had not occurred.

(3)An order under the foregoing provisions of this section may contain such provisions, if any, as the Minister considers appropriate with respect to the transfer of persons employed by a local authority and shall contain provisions for safeguarding the interests of such persons; and section 2(3) of this Act shall have effect for the purposes of this section as if for the reference to section 1 of this Act there were substituted a reference to this section.

(4)If an authority exercising functions by virtue of an order under subsection (2) of this section is not a local authority, it shall be deemed to be a local authority for the purposes of those functions and references to a local authority in any enactment (including this Act) shall be construed accordingly; and the reference in section 1(1) of this Act to functions conferred by the enactments there mentioned shall be construed as including a reference to functions conferred by virtue of the foregoing provisions of this section.