The Local Government (Structural Changes) (Transitional Arrangements) (No.2) Regulations 2008

Honorary aldermen

32.—(1) Subsection (1) of section 249 of the 1972 Act (honorary aldermen and freemen) shall have effect in relation to a principal council which is a predecessor council as if, for the words from “as past members” to the end, there were substituted “as past or serving members of the council”.

(2) Where, by virtue of a section 7 order, a local government area is abolished on the reorganisation date, any person who, immediately before that date, is an honorary alderman of the predecessor council for that area shall, on that date—

(a) where there is more than one related single tier council for that area, become an honorary alderman of the council (whether a related single tier council or another local authority) whose area includes the whole or the greater part of the electoral area for which the person was last returned as a councillor of the predecessor council;

(b) in any other case, become an honorary alderman of the related single tier council.

(3) In relation to a person to whom paragraph (2) applies, references in subsections (2) and (4) of section 249 of the 1972 Act which, immediately before the reorganisation date, fall to be construed as references to the predecessor council shall, on and after that date, be construed as references to the council of which that person becomes an honorary alderman on that date.