The Durham and Tyne and Wear (County and District Boundaries) (Variation) Order 1993

Statutory Instruments

1993 No. 3129

LOCAL GOVERNMENT, ENGLAND AND WALES

CHANGES IN LOCAL GOVERNMENT

The Durham and Tyne and Wear (County and District Boundaries) (Variation) Order 1993

Made

13th December 1993

Coming into force

1st April 1994

The Secretary of State, in exercise of his powers under sections 51(2), 69 and 266 of the Local Government Act 1972(1) and of all other powers enabling him on that behalf, having complied with the procedures laid down in sections 69(2) and (3) of that Act, hereby makes the following Order, which varies supplementary provisions contained in The Durham and Tyne and Wear (County and District Boundaries) Order 1992(2), an Order made by him pursuant to his powers under sections 51(2) and 67(4) of the Act on 1st December 1992:

Citation and commencement

1.  This Order may be cited as the Durham and Tyne and Wear (County and District Boundaries) (Variation) Order 1993, and shall come into force on 1st April 1994.

Variations in respect of metropolitan borough wards

2.—(1) The Durham and Tyne and Wear (County and District Boundaries) Order 1992 shall be varied as provided in paragraphs (2) and (3).

(2) For the Table in article 5(1), there shall be substituted the following

TABLE

(1)	(2)	(3)	(4)
Area marked—	On map—	Transferred from Gateshead,and from the following ward—	To South Tyneside and the following ward—
A & C	2	Pelaw and Heworth	Hebburn Quay
C1 & D	2	Pelaw and Heworth	Hebburn South
A	3	Wrekendyke	Fellgate and Hedworth

(3) For map 2 of the maps marked “Maps of the Durham and Tyne and Wear (County and District Boundaries) Order 1992”, there shall be substituted the map prepared by the Department of the Environment marked “Map of the Durham and Tyne and Wear (County and District Boundaries) (Variation) Order 1993” and deposited in accordance with regulation 5 of the Local Government Area Changes Regulations 1976(3).

Signed by authority of the Secretary of State for the Environment.

Tony Baldry

Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State,

Department of the Environment

13th December 1993

Explanatory Note

(This note is not part of the Order)

This Order varies supplementary provisions made in the Durham and Tyne and Wear (County and District Boundaries) Order 1992 (S. I.1992 No. 3054). That Order, inter alia, transfers areas within the metropolitan county of Tyne and Wear between the metropolitan boroughs of Gateshead and South Tyneside. The effect of the variation made by the present Order is to vary the metropolitan borough ward to which two minor areas are transferred.

(1)

1972 c. 70.

(2)

S.I. 1992/3054.

(3)

S.I. 1976/246, amended by S.I. 1978/247.