1The bodies to which in England and Wales this Act applies are—
(a)local authorities within the meaning of the Local Government Act, 1933, or the London Government Act, 1939, the Common Council of the City of London and the Council of the Isles of Scilly, and joint boards or joint committees constituted to discharge functions of any two or more of those bodies;
(b)the parish meetings of rural parishes;
(c)the Metropolitan Water Board, and joint boards and joint committees constituted by or under any Act for the purposes of water supply, and consisting of or including representatives of local authorities within the meaning of the Local Government Act, 1933;
(d)education committees (including joint education committees) constituted under Part II, and divisional executives constituted under Part III of the First Schedule to the Education Act, 1944;
(e)bodies constituted in accordance with regulations made under subsection (4) of section twenty-two of the National Health Service Act, 1946;
(f)regional hospital boards constituted under section eleven of the said Act of 1946;
(g)executive councils constituted under section thirty-one of the said Act of 1946, but only so far as regards the exercise of their executive functions;
(h)bodies not mentioned above but having, within the meaning of the Public Works Loans Act, 1875, power to levy a rate (other than police authorities).