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9HE;</p></content></level><level class="para2" eId="article-2-a-ii"><num>(ii)</num><content><p>section 9R so far as required for the interpretation of sections 9H to 9HE;</p></content></level><level class="para2" eId="article-2-a-iii"><num>(iii)</num><content><p>paragraphs 1 and 5 of Schedule A1 and section 9GB so far as relating to those paragraphs;</p></content></level></level><level class="para1" eId="article-2-b"><num>(b)</num><intro><p>section 22 and Schedule 3 so far as they relate to the following paragraphs of Schedule 3—</p></intro><level class="para2" eId="article-2-b-i"><num>(i)</num><content><p>paragraphs 56 and 57;</p></content></level><level class="para2" eId="article-2-b-ii"><num>(ii)</num><content><p>paragraph 68(2)(b), so far as the definition of local authority applies in relation to sections 39 to 44 of, and paragraphs 1 and 6 of Schedule 1 to, the <abbr title="Local Government Act 2000 c. 22">2000 Act</abbr>;</p></content></level><level class="para2" eId="article-2-b-iii"><num>(iii)</num><content><p>paragraph 68(2)(c) and (3);</p></content></level></level><level class="para1" eId="article-2-c"><num>(c)</num><intro><p>Part 4 of Schedule 25 so far as it relates to the repeal in section 39 of the <abbr title="Local Government Act 2000 c. 22">2000 Act</abbr> of—</p></intro><level class="para2" eId="article-2-c-i"><num>(i)</num><content><p>subsection (2);</p></content></level><level class="para2" eId="article-2-c-ii"><num>(ii)</num><content><p>in subsection (3) the words “in Wales”; and</p></content></level><level class="para2" eId="article-2-c-iii"><num>(iii)</num><content><p>subsection (6); and</p></content></level></level><level class="para1" eId="article-2-d"><num>(d)</num><content><p>section 237 so far as it relates to the provision mentioned in sub-paragraph (c).</p></content></level></article></body></act></akomaNtoso>