The Local Government Area Changes Regulations 1976

Food and drugs

26.—(1) This regulation shall apply wherever an area is transferred from the area of one food and drugs authority or local authority under the Food and Drugs Act 1955 to the area of another such authority, and in this regulation—

“the transferor authority” means the food and drugs authority or the local authority, as the case may be, from whose area the area is transferred; and

“the transferee authority” means the food and drugs authority or the local authority, as the case may be, to whose area the area is transferred.

In the application of this paragraph to a country, district or London borough regulation 3(4) shall apply.

(2) Anything duly done before the appointed day in the area transferred by, to or in relation to the transferor authority or an authorised officer of such authority in the exercise of any function under the said Act or regulations having effect thereunder shall be deemed to have been duly done by, to or in relation to the transferee authority or, as the case may be, an authorised officer of such authority, and any instrument made in the exercise of such functions in force immediately before the appointed day shall continue in force on and after that day until varied or revoked in relation to the area transferred in the exercise of such functions by the transferee authority.