http://www.legislation.gov.uk/apni/1965/13/section/28New Towns Act (Northern Ireland) 1965An Act to make provision for the creation of new towns, for the exercise by new town commissions of certain functions in relation to such towns, for the expansion or development of existing towns, and for purposes related to those matters.texttext/xmlenStatute Law Database2017-04-19Expert Participation2016-03-07 281If—aupon receiving a request from any one or more than one [ district council] who appear to the Ministry to be concerned and after consultation with other such [ councils], orbafter consultation with all such [ councils],the Ministry is satisfied that by reason of—ithe lack of resources of such [ a council] or their inability on other grounds or unwillingness to provide the services necessary for the proper development of a new town; oriithe likelihood of there being any unreasonable delay on the part of such [ a council] in providing services such as are described in paragraph (i); oriiithe desirability, having regard to the extent to which the construction of a new town has advanced, of amalgamating all or any part of a … district contained in whole or in part in the area designated by an order made under section 1 as the site of the new town with, or with any part of, any other such … district, or with any area in relation to which a new town commission are authorised to exercise municipal functions by virtue of a previous order made under this section,it is expedient that an order (in this Act referred to as a “municipal functions order” ) should be made directing that a new town commission shall, in relation to the area designated under section 1 as the site of the new town, or any part of that area specified in the order, exercise the functions [ of a district council], the Ministry may make such an order.Subs. (1A) rep. by SRO (NI) 1973/2852A municipal functions order shall not be made until a draft thereof has been approved by resolution of each House of Parliament.3The provisions of Part II of Schedule 1 shall have effect with respect to matters preliminary to and consequent upon the making of a municipal functions order.4Where … the whole or part of a … district is included in the area specified in a municipal functions order, the council of that … district shall on the commencement of the order cease to exercise [ its] functions in relation to … so much of the district as is so included.Subs. (5) rep. by SRO (NI) 1973/2856A municipal functions order may make—asuch provision for the incorporation in any … district … contiguous to a district to which subsection (4) applies of the whole or any part of so much as remains of the last-mentioned district after the exclusion of any part thereof to which subsection (4) applies; andbsuch provision in relation to any of the matters which may be dealt with in an order [ under section 52 of the Local Government Act (Northern Ireland) 1972 ],as the Ministry thinks expedient.Subs. (6A) rep. by SRO (NI) 1973/2857Where—athe whole of a … district is included in the area specified in a municipal functions order; orbpart of that district is so included and the whole of the remainder of the district is incorporated in any one or more than one contiguous … district,the council of that first-mentioned … district shall, on the commencement of the order, be dissolved.8Upon the dissolution of the council of a … district under subsection (7), the … district … shall be abolished.9The functions which were exercisable by the concil of a … district before the commencement of a municipal functions order in relation to the area specified in the order and which cease to be exercised by the council under subsection (4) or (5) shall on the commencement of the order become and be exercisable by the new town commission, [ subject to any exceptions for which provision is made by the order].10Any reference in this Act to the area in relation to which a new town commission are authorised to exercise their municipal functions shall be construed as a reference to the area or the aggregate of the areas specified in any one or more than one municipal functions order made with respect to that new town commission, but without prejudice to the application to the new town commission, by virtue of section 30, of any transferred provision authorising … [ a district council] to exercise any of their functions outside their district.Subs. (11) rep. by SRO (NI) 1973/2851972 c.9SRO (NI) 1973/285SRO (NI) 1973/2851968 c. 33 (NI)