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Section 156: Contingency planning and co-ordination in respect of emergencies ordisasters.

Local Government and Housing Act 1989 · 1989 c. 42View on legislation.gov.uk

Part IX: Miscellaneous and General

In section 138 of the Local Government Act 1972 (powers of principal councils with respect to emergencies or disasters) after subsection (1) there shall be inserted the following subsection—

In subsection (3) of that section—

for the words from the beginning to "authorise" there shall be substituted ; and" Nothing in this section authorises "
for the words "the power conferred by that subsection is" there shall be substituted ." the powers conferred by subsections (1) and (1A) above are "

At the end of the section there shall be added the following subsections—

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