The Local Government (Changes for the Registration Service in Bedfordshire, Buckinghamshire, Derbyshire, Dorset, Durham, East Sussex, Hampshire, Leicestershire, Staffordshire and Wiltshire) Order 1996

Transfer of Registration Officers

3.—(1) This article applies to any registration officer —

(a) who immediately before 1st April 1997 holds office in or for a district or sub-district in the area of an old authority under an appointment made by that authority;

(b) who would have continued to hold that office after 1st April 1997 but for the transfer of local government functions from that authority to a new authority; and

(c) whose name is mentioned in column (1) of the Schedule to this Order.

(2) Every registration officer to whom this article applies shall, on 1st April 1997 —

(a) be transferred from the old authority mentioned in column (2) of the Schedule to this Order opposite his name to the new authority mentioned in column (3) of that Schedule opposite his name; and

(b) if an office is allocated to him in accordance with article 4 of this Order, become the holder of that office as if he had been appointed to it by the new authority.

(3) Any provision in this Order for the transfer of a person not engaged whole-time as a registration officer shall apply only to his office as a registration officer.