Local Government Act 1894 (c. 73)

Part IV E+W Supplemental

Parish and District Councils E+W

52 †Supplemental provisions as to transfer of powers. E+W

(1) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . F1

(2) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . F2

(3) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . F3

(4) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . F4

(5) All enactments in any Act, whether general or local and personal, relating to any powers, duties, or liabilities transferred by this Act to a parish council or parish meeting from justices or the vestry or overseers or church wardens and overseers shall, subject to the provisions of this Act and so far as circumstances admit, be construed as if any reference therein to justices or to the vestry, or to the overseers, or to the churchwardens and overseers, referred to the parish council or parish meeting as the case requires, and the said enactments shall be construed with such modifications as may be necessary for carrying this Act into effect.

Textual Amendments

F1 S. 52(1) repealed by Local Government Act 1929 (c. 17), Sch. 12 Pt. VII

F2 S. 52(2) repealed by Statute Law Revision Act 1908 (c. 49)

F3 S. 52(3) repealed by Local Government Act 1933 (c. 51), Sch. 11 Pt. IV

F4 S. 52(4) repealed by Charities Act 1960 (c. 58), Sch. 7 Pt. I

Modifications etc. (not altering text)

C1 Unreliable margin note

C2 Functions of churchwardens and overseers now generally exercisable in City of London by Common Council and elsewhere by rating authorities: City of London (Union of Parishes) Act 1907 (c. xl), s. 11, London Government Act 1899 (c. 14), s. 11(1), Rating and Valuation Act 1925 (c. 90), s. 62(1), S.R. & O. 1927/55 (Rev. XIX, p. 599: 1927, p. 964), London Government Act 1963 (c. 33), s. 63(1) and General Rate Act 1967 (c. 9), s. 1(1)