30.—(1) (a) All byelaws made by the Company under this Order shall be subject to the provisions contained in subsections (3) to (8) of section 236 and section 238 of the Local Government Act 1972(1) and those sections shall for the purposes of this article be construed as if the Company were a local authority within the meaning of the said Act of 1972 and the reference to “the proper officer of the authority” included a reference to the Secretary of the Company.
(b)In its application to byelaws made by the Company subsection (7) of the said section 236 shall be construed as if it had been amended by the insertion of the words “or confirm with modifications” after the word “confirm” in the second place where that word occurs:
Provided that where the confirming authority proposes to make a modification which appears to him to be substantial, he shall inform the Company and require them to take any steps he thinks necessary for informing persons likely to be concerned with that modification and shall not confirm the byelaws until there has elapsed such period as he thinks reasonable for consideration of, and comment upon, the proposed modification by the Company and by other persons who have been informed of it.
(2) The confirming authority for the purposes of this article and of the said section 236 in its application to the Company shall be the Secretary of State.