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Local Employment Act 1972

1972 CHAPTER 5

An Act to consolidate, with certain exceptions, the provisions of the Local Employment Acts 1960 to 1971.

[10th February 1972]

Development areas and intermediate areasE+W+S

1. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . F1E+W+S

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Powers for provision of employmentE+W+S

2. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . F2E+W+S

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3, 4.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . F3E+W+S

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5. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . F4E+W+S

6. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . F5E+W+S

Powers for contributing to development of industryE+W+S

7. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . F6E+W+S

8. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . F7E+W+S

9. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . F8E+W+S

Industrial estates corporationsE+W+S

10. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . F9E+W+S

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(1)—(3). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . F10

(4),(5). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . F11

(6),(7). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . F12

(8)—(10). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . F13

12. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . F14E+W+S

13, 14.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . F15E+W+S

15. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . F16E+W+S

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Supplementary provisionsE+W+S

16—18.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . F17E+W+S

19 Transitional provisions.E+W+S

The provisions of Schedule 2 to this Act shall have effect in relation to the matters there dealt with . . . F18

Textual Amendments

20. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . F19E+W+S

21 Interpretation.E+W+S

(1). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . F20

(2)For the purposes of this Act Monmouthshire shall be deemed to be part of Wales.

(3)Except where the context otherwise requires, in this Act any reference to any enactment shall be construed as a reference to that enactment as amended, and as including a reference thereto as extended or applied, by any other enactment.

22 Consequential amendments, repeals and savings.E+W+S

(1)The enactments specified in Schedule 3 to this Act shall have effect subject to the amendments there specified.

(2). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . F21

(3)(4). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . F22

(5)Nothing in this section shall be construed as affecting the general application of section 38 of the M1Interpretation Act 1889 with respect to the effect of repeals.

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Modifications etc. (not altering text)

C1The text of s. 22(1) and Sch. 3 is in the form in which it was originally enacted: it was not reproduced in Statutes in Force and does not reflect any amendments or repeals which may have been made prior to 1.2.1991.

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23 Short title, commencement and extent.E+W+S

(1)This Act may be cited as the Local Employment Act 1972.

(2)This Act shall come into force at the expiration of the period of one month beginning with the day on which it is passed.

(3)This Act does not extend to Northern Ireland.

SCHEDULES

F23F23SCHEDULE 1E+W+S

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Section 19.

SCHEDULE 2E+W+S Transitional Provisions

Part IE+W+SM2Provisions relating to coming into force of Local Employment Act 1960

Marginal Citations

Pension schemes of industrial estates companiesE+W+S

1(1)The following provisions of this paragraph shall have effect as respects any pension, superannuation or life-assurance scheme or fund in force on 1st April 1960 for the benefit of persons in the employment or former employment of any of the following companies, that is to say—E+W+S

  • North Eastern Trading Estates Limited

  • Wales and Monmouthshire Industrial Estates Limited

  • The West Cumberland Industrial Development Company Limited

  • Scottish Industrial Estates Limited

  • North Western Industrial Estates Limited.

(2)Anything authorised or required to be done for the purposes of the scheme or fund on or after 1st April 1960 which, apart from this paragraph, would fall to be done by, with or to the company or its directors shall be treated as falling to be done by, with or to the industrial estates corporation acting for the part of Great Britain in which the company exercised its functions.

(3)For the purposes of the scheme or fund, employment on or after 1st April 1960 by the said corporation shall be treated as equivalent to employment by the company, and employment on or after that date by the company shall be disregarded.

(4)Any requirement to do anything for the said purposes at the registered office of the company shall be treated, in relation to things falling to be done on or after 1st April 1960, as a requirement to do that thing at the head office of the said industrial estates corporation.

(5)References in any deed, rules or other document to the company shall be construed as, or as including, references to the said industrial estates corporation as may be required for giving effect to, or in consequence of, the foregoing provisions of this paragraph.

2E+W+S. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . F24

3E+W+S. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . F25

Part IIE+W+SM3Provisions relating to coming into force of Part II of Industrial Development Act 1966

Marginal Citations

4E+W+S. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . F26

Re-naming of industrial estates corporationsE+W+S

5E+W+SIn any enactment or instrument passed or made before 19th August 1966, for any reference to an industrial estates corporation by its original name (that is, the name given to it by section 8 of the M4Local Employment Act 1960) there shall be substituted a reference to that corporation by the new name given to it by section 19(1) of the M5Industrial Development Act 1966 (that is, the appropriate name specified in section 10(1) of this Act).

Marginal Citations

Part IIIE+W+S

6E+W+S. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . F27

Part IVE+W+S

7E+W+S. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . F28

8E+W+S. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . F29

Part VE+W+S Other Provisions

9—10.E+W+S. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . F30

Section 22(1)

Schedule 3E+W+S CONSEQUENTIAL AMENDMENTS

Modifications etc. (not altering text)

C2The text of s. 22(1) and Sch. 3 is in the form in which it was originally enacted: it was not reproduced in Statutes in Force and does not reflect any amendments or repeals which may have been made prior to 1.2.1991.

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . F31

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . F32

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Textual Amendments

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M6The Industrial Development Act 1966E+W+S

Marginal Citations

F36. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Textual Amendments

F36Sch. 3: the entry relating to the Industrial Development Act 1966 repealed (5.11.1993) by 1993 c. 50, s. 1(1), Sch. 1 Pt. IX Group2.

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . F37

M7The Finance Act 1970E+W+S

Marginal Citations

For subsection (3) of section 15 of the Finance Act 1970 there shall be subsituted the following subsection—

(3)For the purposes of subsection (2) above “development area” and “intermediate area” have the same meaning as in the Local Employment Act 1972.

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F40F40SCHEDULE 4E+W+S

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