SCHEDULE 3OTHER CONSEQUENTIAL AMENDMENTS

PART IPUBLIC GENERAL ACTS

The Stock Transfer Act 1963 (c. 18)8

In section 4(1), in the definition of “local authority”, there shall be substituted for the words from “any authority” to “rate” the following words–

a

a charging authority, a precepting authority, a combined police authority or a combined fire authority, as defined in section 144 of the Local Government Finance Act 1988;

b

a levying body within the meaning of section 74 of that Act; and

c

a body as regards which section 75 of that Act applies,