The War Pensions Committees (Amendment) Regulations 1995

Regulation 5(1)

SCHEDULE 1 SCHEDULE TO BE SUBSTITUTED FOR SCHEDULE 1 TO THE PRINCIPAL REGULATIONS

Regulation 2

“SCHEDULE 1 WAR PENSIONS COMMITTEES AND THEIR AREAS

Name of War Pensions Committee	Area for which War Pensions Committee Established
Central Scotland War Pensions Committee	Angus, Argyll and Bute, Clackmannan, Dumbarton and Clydebank, the City of Dundee, East Dunbartonshire, the City of Glasgow, North Lanarkshire, Perthshire and Kinross and Stirling.
Central Southern England War Pensions Committee	The counties of Berkshire, Hampshire, the Isle of Wight and Surrey.
Chilterns War Pensions Committee	The counties of Bedfordshire, Buckinghamshire, Hertfordshire and Oxfordshire.
Cumbria and Lancaster War Pensions Committee	The county of Cumbria and the City of Lancaster.
Derbyshire, Leicestershire and Staffordshire War Pensions Committee	The counties of Derbyshire, Leicestershire and Staffordshire.
East Anglian War Pensions Committee	The counties of Cambridgeshire, Norfolk and Suffolk.
Essex War Pensions Committee	The county of Essex and the London boroughs of Barking, Havering and Redbridge.
Greater Manchester and Macclesfield War Pensions Committee	The county of Greater Manchester, other than the metropolitan districts of Bolton and Wigan together with (in the county of Cheshire) the borough of Macclesfield.
Kent War Pensions Committee	The county of Kent.
Lancashire War Pensions Committee	The metropolitan districts of Bolton, Knowsley, Saint Helens, Sefton and Wigan and the county of Lancashire other than the City of Lancaster.
Lincolnshire and Nottinghamshire War Pensions Committee	The counties of Lincolnshire and Nottinghamshire.
Liverpool, the Wirral and Cheshire War Pensions Committee	The county of Cheshire other than the borough of Macclesfield, the City of Liverpool and the metropolitan borough of Wirral.
London North War Pensions Committee	The London boroughs of Barnet, Brent, Camden, Ealing, Enfield, Hackney, Haringey, Harrow, Hillingdon, Islington, Tower Hamlets and Waltham Forest.
London South War Pensions Committee	The London boroughs of Bexley, Bromley, Croydon, Greenwich, Hammersmith and Fulham, Hounslow, Lambeth, Lewisham, Merton, Richmond upon Thames, Southwark, Sutton and Wandsworth, the Royal Boroughs of Kensington and Chelsea and of Kingston upon Thames and the Cities of London and Westminster.
North and West Wales War Pensions Committee Pwyllgor Pensiynau Rhyfel Gogledd a Gorllewin Cymru	The counties of Anglesey, Caernarfonshire and Merionethshire, Cardiganshire, Carmarthenshire, Denbighshire, Flintshire, Pembrokeshire and Powys and the county boroughs of Aberconwy and Colwyn and Wrexham.
North of Scotland War Pensions Committee	The City of Aberdeen, Aberdeenshire, Highland, Moray, Orkney, Shetland and the Western Isles.
North Yorkshire and the Tees War Pensions Committee	The county of North Yorkshire(1) and the boroughs of Middlesborough, Hartlepool, Langbaurgh-on-Tees(2) and Stockton-on-Tees.
Northern Ireland War Pensions Committee	Northern Ireland.
Northumbria War Pensions Committee	The counties of Durham, Northumberland and Tyne and Wear.
South East Scotland War Pensions Committee	The Borders, the City of Edinburgh, Fife, Falkirk, East Lothian, Midlothian and West Lothian.
South Wales War Pensions Committee Pwyllgor Pensiynau Rhyfel De Cymru	The counties of Cardiff, Monmouthshire, and Swansea and the county boroughs of Blaenau Gwent, Bridgend, Caerphilly, Merthyr Tydfil; Neath and Port Talbot; Newport; Rhondda, Cynon, Taff; Torfaen and the Vale of Glamorgan.
South West England War Pensions Committee	The counties of Cornwall, Devon and Somerset and the Isles of Scilly.
South West Midlands War Pensions Committee	The counties of Hereford and Worcester and Shropshire.
South West Scotland War Pensions Committee	East Ayrshire, North Ayrshire, South Ayrshire, Dumfries and Galloway, Inverclyde, South Lanarkshire, Renfrewshire and East Renfrewshire.
South Yorkshire and the Humber War Pensions Committee	The City of Kingston upon Hull, the districts of the East Riding of Yorkshire, North Lincolnshire and North East Lincolnshire(3), the metropolitan boroughs of Barnsley, Doncaster and Rotherham and the City of Sheffield.
Sussex War Pensions Committee	The counties of East and West Sussex.
West Midlands, Warwickshire and Northamptonshire War Pensions Committee	The counties of Warwickshire, Northamptonshire, the Cities of Birmingham and Wolverhampton and the district of Solihull.
West of England War Pensions Committee	The districts of Bath and North East Somerset(4), the City of Bristol, South Gloucestershire and Woodspring and the counties of Dorset, Gloucestershire and Wiltshire.
West Yorkshire War Pensions Committee	The Cities of Bradford, Leeds and Wakefield, the borough of Kirklees and the district of Calderdale.”

Regulation 5(2)

SCHEDULE 2 SCHEDULE TO BE INSERTED AS SCHEDULE 1A TO THE PRINCIPAL REGULATIONS

Regulation 2

“SCHEDULE 1A EXCEPTED AUTHORITIES

• Avon County Council

• Bath City Council

• Beverley Borough Council

• Boothferry Borough Council

• Cleethorpes Borough Council

• Cleveland County Council

• East Yorkshire Borough Council

• Glanford Borough Council

• Great Grimsby Borough Council

• Holderness Borough Council

• Humberside County Council

• Kingswood Borough Council

• Northavon District Council

• Scunthorpe Borough Council

• Wandsdyke District Council

• York City Council”

(1)

A new district of York was constituted by article 3 of the North Yorkshire (District of York) (Structural and Boundary Changes) Order 1995 (S.I. 1995/610) with effect from 8th March 1995. That district will cease to form part of North Yorkshire and become a separate county on 1st April 1996 by virtue of articles 4 and 5(1) of that Order.

(2)

This borough is renamed Redcar and Cleveland with effect from 1st April 1996 by virtue of article 9 of the Cleveland (Structural Change) Order 1995 (S.I. 1995/187).

(3)

The districts of the City of Kingston upon Hull, North East Lincolnshire, North Lincolnshire and the East Riding of Yorkshire are constituted by article 3 of the Humberside (Structural Change) Order 1995 (S.I. 1995/600) with effect from 8th March 1995, each area also becoming a county on 1st April 1996 by virtue of article 6 of that Order.

(4)

The districts of Bath and North East Somerset, the City of Bristol and South Gloucestershire are constituted by article 3 of the Avon (Structural Change) Order 1995 (S.I. 1995/493) with effect from 1st March 1995. On 1st April 1996 the district of Woodspring is renamed North West Somerset by article 4 of that Order, and North West Somerset and the districts constituted by article 3 become counties by virtue of article 6 of the Order.