8In section 16—
(a)in subsection (2), the words " under the Fire Services Act, 1947 " shall be omitted, for the words " that Act " there shall be substituted the words " the Fire Services Act 1947 " , and the words " and, in the administrative county of London, shall not serve such a notice except with the consent of the London County Council " shall be omitted ;
(b)" fire authority" means, in relation to any area, the authority for the time being constituted the fire authority for that area by the Fire Services Act 1947, except that in relation to an area the fire brigade for which is administered by such a joint committee as is mentioned in section 36(4)(b) of that Act, it means that joint committee.