Part IV Changes in Local Government Areas
Miscellaneous
78 Supplementary.
(1)
In this Part of this Act—
“electoral arrangements” means—
(a)
in relation to a principal area, the number of councillors of the council for that area, the number and boundaries of the electoral areas into which that area is for the time being divided for the purpose of the election of councillors, the number of councillors to be elected for any electoral area in that principal area and the name of any electoral area;
(b)
in relation to a parish or community council or a common parish or community council, the number of councillors, the question whether the parish or community or any parish or community, as the case may be, should or should not be or continue to be divided into wards for the purpose of the election of councillors, the number and boundaries of any such wards, the number of councillors to be elected for any such ward or in the case of a common parish or community council for each parish or community and the name of any such ward;
(c)
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“local government area” includes the City, the Inner Temple and the Middle Temple;
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“substantive change” has the meaning assigned to it by F3section 54(1)(e) above.
(2)
In considering the electoral arrangements for local government areas for the purposes of this Part of this Act, the Secretary of State, F4the Welsh Commission and every F5Welsh principal council and district council shall so far as is reasonably practicable comply with the rules set out F6in Schedule 11 to this Act.