Part II Local Government Changes for England

Supplemental provisions of Part II

27 Amendments relating to local government changes.

(1)

Schedule 3 to this Act (which contains consequential amendments in connection with the provisions of this Part) shall have effect.

(2)

In considering the electoral arrangements for any local government area for the purposes of this Part F1the Electoral Commission and the Boundary Committee for England shall comply, so far as is reasonably practicable, with the rules set out in Schedule 11 to the 1972 Act (rules to be observed in considering electoral arrangements); and accordingly, in that Schedule, references to “either of the Commissions” shall have effect—

(a)

until the commencement of section 24 above, as including a reference to the Local Government Commission; and

(b)

thereafter, as if they were references to the F1the Electoral Commission and the Boundary Committee for England or the Local Government Boundary Commission for Wales.

(3)

In subsection (2) above “electoral arrangements” has the meaning given by subsection (4) of section 14 above for the purposes of subsection (1)(c) of that section.