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This is a draft item of legislation. This draft has since been made as a UK Statutory Instrument: The North Yorkshire (Structural Changes) Order 2022 No. 328
3.—(1) On or after 1st April 2023 the North Yorkshire Council is the sole principal authority for North Yorkshire.
(2) For the purposes of enactments relating to local government, there shall be a new district, whose area shall be co-terminous with North Yorkshire; and the name of that new district is North Yorkshire.
(3) If the North Yorkshire Council passes a resolution that the word “county” should be omitted from its name, its name shall be “The North Yorkshire Council” and subsection (3) of section 2 of the 1972 Act (constitution of principal councils in England) shall cease to apply so far as it prescribes the name of the council.
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