The Local Authorities (Standing Orders) (England) (Amendment) Regulations 2015

Transitional and saving provisions

3.—(1) Where, before the date on which these Regulations come into force, anything was being done in respect of an allegation of misconduct in accordance with—

(a) regulation 7 of the 2001 Regulations, including that regulation as applied by regulation 10(1)(b) of the 2001 Regulations; or

(b) the provisions set out in paragraph 4 of Part 1 of Schedule 1 to the Local Authorities (Standing Orders) Regulations 1993(1), or Schedule 3 to the 2001 Regulations (or provisions to the like effect) incorporated in the local authority’s standing orders,

the provisions mentioned in paragraphs (a) and (b) shall continue to apply in respect of the allegation of misconduct in question.

(2) Anything which, before the date on which the local authority incorporated or modified provisions in standing orders in accordance with the 2001 Regulations as amended by regulation 2, was being done by, to or in relation to an officer in accordance with a provision mentioned in paragraph (1) may be continued after that date by, to or in relation to that officer in accordance with that provision.

(3) Nothing in these Regulations shall apply in relation to the standing orders of the New Forest National Park Authority as provided for in Part 1 of Schedule 3 to the New Forest National Park Authority (Establishment) Order 2005(2).

(1)

S.I. 1993/202. The Local Authorities (Standing Orders) Regulations 1993 were repealed by S.I. 2001/3384 subject to savings specified in regulation 8(3) of S.I. 2001/3384

(2)

SI 2005/421. Article 16 of Part 1 of Schedule 3 of the Order applies regulation 7 of the 2001 Regulations to the New Forest National Park Authority, as if it were a local authority as referred to in the 2001 Regulations.