The Buckinghamshire (Structural Changes) Order 2019

PART 1 GENERAL

Citation and commencement

1.  This Order may be cited as the Buckinghamshire (Structural Changes) Order 2019 and comes into force on the day after the day on which the Order is made.

Interpretation

2.  In this Order

“the 1972 Act” means the Local Government Act 1972(1);

“the 1989 Act” means the Local Government and Housing Act 1989(2);

“the 2000 Act” means the Local Government Act 2000(3);

“the 2007 Act” means the Local Government and Public Involvement in Health Act 2007;

“Buckinghamshire” except in the first mention of that word in article 3(1) and in the mention in articles 3(3), 18(2)(a) and 19(a) means the county of Buckinghamshire;

“the county council” means the council of the county of Buckinghamshire;

“the 2020 election” means the election required by article 18(1) to be held in 2020;

“the 2020 election day” means the ordinary day of election of councillors in 2020(4);

“the districts” means the districts of Aylesbury Vale, Chiltern, South Bucks and Wycombe;

“the district councils” means Aylesbury Vale District Council, Chiltern District Council, South Bucks District Council and Wycombe District Council;

“the Implementation Team” means the team required to be formed under article 17(1);

“shadow authority” means an authority (not being a local authority) which will become a local authority on 1st April 2020;

“shadow executive” has the meaning given in article 6(1)(b);

“the shadow period” means the period beginning with the day on which this Order comes into force and ending on the fourth day after the 2020 election day.

(1)

1972 c.70.

(2)

1989 c.42.

(3)

2000 c.22. Parts 2 and 3 of that Act were amended by Part 3 of the Local Government and Public Involvement in Health Act 2007 (c. 28). Part 1A and Schedule A1 were inserted by Schedule 2 to the Localism Act 2011 (c. 20).

(4)

See section 37 of the Representation of the People Act 1983 (c.2).