Local Employment Act 1972
This document consolidates earlier Local Employment Acts, gives a citation name, starts one month after it is passed, and does not extend to Northern Ireland.
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Local Employment Act 1972
AI-assisted research summary: This document consolidates earlier Local Employment Acts, gives a citation name, starts one month after it is passed, and does not extend to Northern Ireland.
Local Employment Act 1972 An Act to consolidate, with certain exceptions, the provisions of the Local Employment Acts 1960 to 1971. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . The provisions of Schedule 2 to this Act shall have effect in relation to the matters there dealt with . . . For the purposes of this Act Monmouthshire shall be deemed to be part of Wales. Except where the context otherwise requires, in this Act any reference to any enactment shall be construed as a reference to that enactment as amended, and as including a reference thereto as extended or applied, by any other enactment. The enactments specified in Schedule 3 to this Act shall have effect subject to the amendments there specified. Nothing in this section shall be construed as affecting the general application of section 38 of the Interpretation Act 1889 with respect to the effect of repeals. This Act may be cited as the Local Employment Act 1972. This Act shall come into force at the expiration of the period of one month beginning with the day on which it is passed. This Act does not extend to Northern Ireland. The following provisions of this paragraph shall have effect as respects any pension, superannuation or life-assurance scheme or fund in force on 1st April 1960 for the benefit of persons in the employment or former employment of any of the following companies, that is to say— North Eastern Trading Estates Limited Wales and Monmouthshire Industrial Estates Limited The West Cumberland Industrial Development Company Limited Scottish Industrial Estates Limited North Western Industrial Estates Limited. Anything authorised or required to be done for the purposes of the scheme or fund on or after 1st April 1960 which, apart from this paragraph, would fall to be done by, with or to the company or its directors shall be treated as falling to be done by, with or to the industrial estates corporation acting for the part of Great Britain in which the company exercised its functions. For the purposes of the scheme or fund, employment on or after 1st April 1960 by the said corporation shall be treated as equivalent to employment by the company, and employment on or after that date by the company shall be disregarded. Any requirement to do anything for the said purposes at the registered office of the company shall be treated, in relation to things falling to be done on or after 1st April 1960, as a requirement to do that thing at the head office of the said industrial estates corporation. References in any deed, rules or other document to the company shall be construed as, or as including, references to the said industrial estates corporation as may be required for giving effect to, or in consequence of, the foregoing provisions of this paragraph. In any enactment or instrument passed or made before 19th August 1966, for any reference to an industrial estates corporation by its original name (that is, the name given to it by section 8 of the Local Employment Act 1960) there shall be substituted a reference to that corporation by the new name given to it by section 19(1) of the Industrial Development Act 1966 (that is, the appropriate name specified in section 10(1) of this Act). For subsection (3) of section 15 of the Finance Act 1970 there shall be subsituted the following subsection— For the purposes of subsection (2) above “development area” and “intermediate area” have the same meaning as in the Local Employment Act 1972. S. 1 repealed by “Industrial ” Development Act 1982 (c. 52, SIF 64), s. 19(1)(2), Sch. 2 Pt. I, Sch. 3 S. 2 repealed by Industry Act 1972 (c. 63), s. 13(4), Sch. 4 Pt. I Ss. 3, 4 repealed by Industry Act 1972 (c. 63), s. 13(3), Sch. 4 Pt. I S. 5 repealed by Industrial Development Act 1982 (c. 52, SIF 64), s. 19(1)(2), Sch. 2 Pt. I, Sch. 3 S. 6 repealed by Employment and Training Act 1973 (c. 50), Sch. 4 S. 7 repealed by Industrial Development Act 1982 (c. 52, SIF 64), s. 19(1)(2), Sch. 2 Pt. I, Sch. 3 S. 8 repealed by Derelict Land Act 1982 (c. 42, SIF 46:4), ss. 1(12)(13), 2(3)(4), 5(2), Sch. S. 9 repealed by Industrial Development Act 1982 (c. 52, SIF 64), s. 19(1)(2), Sch. 2 Pt. I, Sch. 3 S. 10 repealed by English Industrial Estates Corporation Act 1981 (c. 13, SIF 64), s. 9(4), Sch. 2 S. 11(1)–(3) repealed by Industry Act 1980 (c. 33, SIF 64), ss. 21(1), 22, Sch. 2 S. 11 (4)(5) repealed by English Industrial Estates Corporation Act 1981 (c. 13, SIF 64), s. 9(4), Sch. 2 S. 11 (6)(7) repealed by Industry Act 1980 (c. 33, SIF 64), ss. 21(1), 22, Sch. 2 S. 11 (8)–(10) repealed by English Industrial Estates Corporation Act 1981 (c. 13, SIF 64), s. 9(4), Sch. 2 S. 12 repealed by English Industrial Estates Corporation Act 1981 (c. 13, SIF 64), s. 9(4), Sch. 2 Ss. 13, 14, 16, 17, 18, 20, 21(1) and 22(3)(4) repealed by Industrial Development Act 1982 (c. 52, SIF 64), s. 9(4), Sch. 2 Pt. I, Sch. 3 S. 15 repealed by Industry Act 1972 (c. 63), Sch. 4 Pt. I Words repealed by Industry Act 1972 (c. 63), Sch. 4 Pt. I The text of s. 22(1) and Sch. 3 is in the form in which it was originally enacted: it was not reproduced in Statutes in Force and does not reflect any amendments or repeals which may have been made prior to 1.2.1991. S. 22(2) repealed by Statute Law (Repeals) Act 1978 (c. 45), Sch. 1 Pt. VIII 1889 c. 63. Sch. 1 repealed by English Industrial Estates Corporation Act 1981 (c. 13, SIF 64), s. 9(4), Sch. 2 Sch. 2 para. 2 repealed by Industry Act 1980 (c. 33, SIF 64), s. 21(1), Sch. 2 Sch. 2 para. 3 repealed (with saving) by Industrial Development Act 1982 (c. 52, SIF 64), s. 19(1)(2), Sch. 2 Pt. I, Pt. II para. 1, Sch. 3 1960 c. 18. Sch. 2 paras. 4, 8–10 repealed by Industrial Development Act 1982 (c. 52, SIF 64), s. 19(1)(2), Sch. 2 Pt. I, Sch. 3 1966 c. 34. Sch. 2 paras. 6, 7 repealed by Industry Act 1972 (c. 63), Sch. 4 Pt. I Entries repealed by Industrial Development Act 1982 (c. 52, SIF 64), s. 19, Sch. 2 Pt. I para. 1, Sch. 3 Entry repealed by Town and Country Planning (Scotland) Act 1972 (c. 52), Sch. 23 Entry repealed by Statute Law (Repeals) Act 1978 (c.45), Sch. 1 Pt. VIII Entry repealed by Industrial Development Act 1982 (c. 52, SIF 64), s. 19, Sch. 2 Pt. I para. 1, Sch. 3 and also expressed to be repealed by Housing and Building Control Act 1984 (c. 29, SIF 61), s. 61(2), Sch. 12 Pt. I Sch. 3: the entry relating to the Industrial Development Act 1966 repealed (5.11.1993) by 1993 c. 50, s. 1(1), Sch. 1 Pt. IX Group2. Entry repealed by Industrial Development Act 1982 (c. 52, SIF 64), s. 19, Sch. 2 Pt. I para. 1, Sch. 3 and expressed to be repealed by Planning (Consequential Provisions) Act 1990 (c. 11, SIF 123:1, 2), s. 3, Sch. 1 Pt. I 1970 c. 24. Sch. 4 repealed by Statute Law (Repeals) Act 1978 (c. 45), Sch. 1 Pt. VIII
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