An Act to provide for the dissolution of Letchworth Garden City Corporation and the vesting of their undertaking in a society registered under the Industrial and Provident Societies Act 1965; to repeal the Letchworth Garden City Corporation Act 1962; and for connected purposes.
[1st May 1995]
WHEREAS—
Letchworth Garden City Corporation (hereinafter called “the Corporation”) were constituted as a corporation being a public authority by the [1962 c. xxxix.] Letchworth Garden City Corporation Act 1962:
It would be of public and local advantage to transfer the undertaking of the Corporation to an industrial and provident society registered under the [1965 c. 12.] Industrial and Provident Societies Act 1965 which is not a public authority and which is charitable and thereupon to dissolve the Corporation and repeal the Letchworth Garden City Corporation Act 1962:
The Corporation have secured the approval of the Registrar of Friendly Societies of proposed rules for such a society which it is intended should be registered with the name “Letchworth Garden City Heritage Foundation” (hereinafter called “the Heritage Foundation”):
It is expedient that other provisions of this Act be enacted:
The purposes of this Act cannot be effected without the authority of Parliament:
May it therefore please Your Majesty that it may be enacted, and be it enacted, by the Queen’s most Excellent Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows:—