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Local Government Act 2002

Consequential amendments, repeals, revocations, transitional provisions, and savings - Transitional provisions

289: Special orders

You could also call this:

“Rules for using special powers that started before July 2003”

You have a special power given to you by the Local Government Act 1974 or another Act. This power lets you do certain things by making a special order.

If you started to use this power before 1 July 2003, you can finish what you started. You need to follow the rules in section 716B of the Local Government Act 1974. Any special order you make following these rules will work as it’s supposed to.

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Government and voting > Local councils

288: Decision-making processes commenced before enactment, or

“This old rule about decisions made before the new law doesn't work anymore”

289A: Special orders on or after 1 July 2003, or

“Rules for local authorities using special powers between 1 July 2003 and a later date”

Part 12 Consequential amendments, repeals, revocations, transitional provisions, and savings
Transitional provisions

289Special orders

This section applies in relation to any power given to a local authority by the Local Government Act 1974 or any other Act to do anything by special order.
If, in relation to the exercise of any power to which this section applies, a local authority has, before 1 July 2003, begun proceedings under section 716B of the Local Government Act 1974, that local authority may complete those proceedings and any special order made in those proceedings in accordance with that section has effect according to its tenor.