The Local Government Act 1974 has a part called Local authorities. You can find more information about this in section 2 of the act, which you can read by following the link to s 2. This part of the act is called Local authorities, but it has been repealed, which means it is no longer in use.

When you look at the Local authorities part, you will see it is labelled as repealed. This means the rules or information in this part are not used anymore. You can still read about it, but you need to remember it is not current.

You can find out why it was repealed or what replaced it by reading the rest of the Local Government Act 1974, starting with s 2 that talks about Local authorities.