1993 No. 902
The Greater Manchester and Lancashire (County and Metropolitan Borough Boundaries) Order 1993
Made
Laid before Parliament
Coming into force
for the purposes referred to in article 1(2)
for all other purposes
The Secretary of State, in exercise of his powers under sections 51(2) and 67(4) of the Local Government Act 19721 and of all other powers enabling him in that behalf, hereby makes the following Order which gives effect to proposals submitted to him under sections 47, 48(1) and 51(1) of that Act, more than six weeks before the making of this Order, by the Local Government Boundary Commission for England:
Citation and commencement1
1
This Order may be cited as the Greater Manchester and Lancashire (County and Metropolitan Borough Boundaries) Order 1993.
2
This Order shall come into force on 1st December 1993 for any purpose set out in regulation 4(1) of the Local Government Area Changes Regulations 19762.
3
For all other purposes, this Order shall come into force on 1st April 1994.
Interpretation2
In this Order—
“district” includes a borough, a metropolitan borough;
“electoral division” means an electoral division of the county of Lancashire3;
“Greater Manchester” means the metropolitan county of Greater Manchester, and any reference to Bury or to Rochdale is a reference to the district of that name in that county;
“Lancashire” means the county of Lancashire, and any reference to Rossendale is a reference to the district of that name in that county;
“the map” means one of the 3 maps prepared by the Department of the Environment, marked “Maps of the Greater Manchester and Lancashire (County and Metropolitan Borough Boundaries) Order 1993”, and deposited in accordance with regulation 5 of the Local Government Area Changes Regulations 1976; and
“ward” means a ward of the district from or to which an area is transferred by this order4, except in the expression “parish ward”, where it means a ward of the parish to which an area is transferred.
Transfers from Greater Manchester (Rochdale) to Lancashire (Rossendale)3
The areas which are marked C1 and C2 on map 1 shall be transferred from Greater Manchester, from Rochdale, and from the Healey ward to—
a
Lancashire;
b
Rossendale;
c
the parish of Whitworth, and the Healey parish ward;
d
the Healey and Whitworth ward, and the Whitworth electoral division; and to
e
the Rossendale petty sessional division, and the East Lancashire coroner’s district.
Transfers within Greater Manchester between Bury and Rochdale4
1
The areas which are marked B1 and B4 on map 2 and B5 on map 3 shall be transferred from Bury, and from the Holyrood ward to Rochdale, and to the Middleton and Heywood petty sessional division.The areas marked B1 and B4 shall additionally be transferred to the Middleton South ward, and the area marked B5 to the Middleton West ward.
2
The areas which are marked B2 and B3 on map 2 and B6 and B7 on map 3 shall be transferred from Rochdale, and from the Middleton South ward to Bury, to the Holyrood ward, and to the Bury petty sessional division.
Town and Country Planning5
1
In this article, “provision” means a provision of a development plan (as defined in section 336(1) of the Town and Country Planning Act 19905).
2
Any provision applying to an area transferred by this Order shall continue to apply to that area, notwithstanding the transfer, until replaced by a provision which so applies, and which is expressed to supersede the preserved provision.
Signed by authority of the Secretary of State for the Environment
(This note is not part of the Order)