The Metropolitan Districts (Names) Order 1973

Statutory Instruments

1973 No. 137

LOCAL GOVERNMENT, ENGLAND AND WALES

The Metropolitan Districts (Names) Order 1973

Made

31st January 1973

Coming into Operation

1st April 1973

The Secretary of State for the Environment, in exercise of the powers conferred upon him by section 1(3) of the Local Government Act 1972 and of all other powers enabling him in that behalf, hereby makes the following order:—

Title and commencement

1.  This order may be cited as the Metropolitan Districts (Names) Order 1973 and shall come into operation on 1st April 1973.

Interpretation

2.—(1) The Interpretation Act 1889 shall apply for the interpretation of this order as it applies for the interpretation of an Act of Parliament.

(2) In this order “identification letter” in relation to any metropolitan district in a metropolitan county named in column (1) of the Schedule to this order means the letter by which such district is identified in column (2) of Part I of Schedule 1 to the Local Government Act 1972.

Names of metropolitan districts

3.  In the metropolitan counties named in column (1) of the Schedule to this order each metropolitan district identified by its identification letter in column (2) shall bear the name specified in respect of the district in column (3).

Signed by authority of the Secretary of State.

C. J. Pearce

An Under Secretary in the Department of the Environment

31st January 1973

SCHEDULE

(1)(2)(3)
Name of countyIdentification letter of districtName of district
Greater Manchester

(a)

(b)

(c)

(d)

(e)

(f)

(g)

(h)

(j)

(k)

Wigan

Bolton

Bury

Rochdale

Salford

Manchester

Oldham

Trafford

Stockport

Tameside

Merseyside

(a)

(b)

(c)

(d)

(e)

Sefton

Liverpool

St. Helens

Knowsley

Wirral

South Yorkshire

(a)

(b)

(c)

(d)

Barnsley

Doncaster

Sheffield

Rotherham

Tyne and Wear

(a)

(b)

(c)

(d)

(e)

Newcastle upon Tyne

North Tyneside

Gateshead

South Tyneside

Sunderland

West Midlands

(a)

(b)

(c)

(d)

(e)

(f)

(g)

Wolverhampton

Walsall

Dudley

Sandwell

Birmingham

Solihull

Coventry

West Yorkshire

(a)

(b)

(c)

(d)

(e)

Bradford

Leeds

Calderdale

Kirklees

Wakefield

EXPLANATORY NOTE

This Order provides names for the metropolitan districts in England.