10(1)The liabilities of any authority for pensions, allowances and gratuities in respect of members of a transferred fire brigade retiring or dying at any time before the appointed day, and the functions of that authority in relation thereto, shall on the appointed day be transferred to the fire authority.
(2)In the last foregoing sub-paragraph the expression " transferred fire brigade " means a fire brigade maintained in pursuance of the Fire Brigades Act, 1938, by an authority which does not on the appointed day become a fire authority, and the expression " the fire authority " in relation to any such brigade means the fire authority for the area including the area for which the brigade was maintained.