2In sections 2(1) and 6(2)(a) of the Local Government Act 1972 before the word " county " there shall be inserted the word " non-metropolitan" .
3In section 7(2) of that Act for the words " a year of election of county councillors " there shall be substituted the words " 1977 and every fourth year thereafter" .
4For section 47(4) of that Act there shall be substituted—
“(4)For the purposes of subsection 1(b) and (c) above metropolitan and non-metropolitan districts are areas of a like description.”
5In section 48(1) of that Act, in paragraph (a) before the word " counties " there shall be inserted the word " non-metropolitan " and in paragraph (b) after the word " it" , in the second place where it occurs, there shall be inserted the words " and between each of the metropolitan counties and the non-metropolitan counties adjoining it" .
6At the end of section 62 of that Act there shall be inserted—
“(9)In the case of the boundary between a metropolitan county and a county in Wales the references in subsection (1) above to the councils of both counties and in subsection (7) above to the county councils concerned shall be treated as references to the council of the metropolitan district and the council of the county in Wales between which the boundary lies.”
7In section 141(1) of that Act for the words " The council of a county" there shall be substituted the words " The council of a non-metropolitan county" .
8In section 270(1) of that Act—
(a)at the end of the definition of " county " there shall be inserted the words " , but in the expressions ' county council',' council of a county', ' county councillor' and ' councillor of a county' means, in relation to England, a non-metropolitan county only ;" ;
(b)in the definition of " principal area " for the words " county, Greater London " there shall be substituted the words " non-metropolitan county" .