24. (1) The Minister shall by order specify a date (in this Part referred to as the “transfer date”) to be the transfer date for the purposes of this Part.

(2) On the transfer date each town council stands dissolved and ceases to exist and—

(a) the local authority for a county or a city and county in which a town whose town council is so dissolved is situated shall, for all purposes, become and be the successor to the town council on that date, and

(b) the area of a town whose town council is so dissolved shall, for the purposes of all functions of the local authority (whether under the Local Government Acts 1925 to 2014 or otherwise) for the county or city and county in which the town is situated, be included in and form part of that county or city and county.