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Local Employment Act 1970 (c. 7)

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Local Employment Act 1970

1970 CHAPTER 7

An Act to provide for the exercise, in relation to intermediate areas, of certain of the functions under the Local Employment Acts 1960 to 1966 of the Minister of Technology and other persons and, in relation to derelict land clearance areas, of the powers conferred by section 20 of the Industrial Development Act 1966; to provide for the making of grants out of moneys provided by Parliament towards costs incurred by councils in connection with the bringing into use, or the improvement of the appearance of, derelict, neglected or unsightly land; to withdraw the payments additional to refund of selective employment tax which are made under section 1(1)( a) to ( d) of the Selective Employment Payments Act 1966, and to reduce correspondingly the amount of payments to public bodies under section 3 of that Act; to amend section 60 of the Landlord and Tennant Act 1954; and for purposes connected with the matters aforesaid.

[26th February 1970]

Parts I, II

1—4.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . F1

Annotations:

Amendments (Textual)

F1Ss. 1-4 repealed by Local Employment Act 1972 (c. 5), s. 22, Sch. 4

5 Minor and consequential amendments of enactments

The enactments mentioned in column 1 of the Schedule to this Act shall have effect subject to the amendments respectively specified in relation thereto in column 2 thereof (being minor amendments or amendments consequential on this part of this Act).

Annotations:

Modifications etc. (not altering text)

C1The text of S. 5, Sch. (a) is in the form in which it was originally enacted: it was not reproduced in Statutes in Force and does not reflect any amendments or repeals which may have been made prior to 1.2.1991.

6. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . F1

Annotations:

Amendments (Textual)

F1S. 6 repealed by Local Employment Act 1972 (c. 5), s. 22, Sch. 4

7. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . F1

Annotations:

Amendments (Textual)

F1S. 7 repealed by Finance Act 1972 (c. 41), Sch. 28 Pt. IX

Part III Supplementary

8 Interpretation

(1). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . F1

(2)Except where the context otherwise requires, a reference in this Act to any other enactment shall be construed as referring to that enactment as amended, and as including a reference thereto as applied, by any other enactment (including an enactment contained in this Act).

Annotations:

Amendments (Textual)

F1Ss. 8(1), 9(2)(4) repealed by Local Employment Act 1972 (c. 5), s. 22, Sch. 4

9†Short title, citation commencement, repeal and extent

(1)This Act may be cited as the Local Employment Act 1970.

(2). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . F1

(3)This Act shall come into force on the expiration of the period of seven days beginning with the day on which it is passed.

(4). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . F1

(5)This Act does not extend to Northern Ireland.

Annotations:

Amendments (Textual)

F1Ss. 8(1), 9(2)(4) repealed by Local Employment Act 1972 (c. 5), s. 22, Sch. 4

Modifications etc. (not altering text)

C1Unreliable marginal note