The Local Government (Structural Changes) (Further Financial Provisions and Amendment) Regulations 2009

1.  In regulation 2 (interpretation)—

(a) in paragraph (1) insert the following definitions—

““preceding financial year” means the financial year that precedes the relevant year;

“predecessor billing authority” means a predecessor council which, as regards the preceding financial year, is a billing authority for the purposes of Part 1 of the 1992 Act;

“predecessor council” means a local authority which, by or in consequence of a section 7 order, ceases to exist on the reorganisation date;

“predecessor county council” means a predecessor council which is a county council;

“relevant year” means the financial year beginning on the reorganisation date;

“reorganisation date”, in relation to a council, means the date specified in the section 7 order as that on which a structural change comes into effect;

“section 7 order” means an order under section 7 of the 2007 Act;

“single tier council” means a local authority which on and after the reorganisation date is the sole principal authority for an area;

“successor council”—

(a)

in relation to a predecessor council whose area is to become part of the area of a sole single tier council on the reorganisation date, means the preparing or shadow council which will become that single tier council;

(b)

in relation to a predecessor council whose area is to become the area of more than one single tier council on the reorganisation date, means the preparing or shadow councils which will become those single tier councils;”; and

(b) After paragraph (3) insert—

“(4) For the purposes of these Regulations—

(a) a single tier council is related to a billing authority (whether or not a predecessor billing authority) and to a predecessor county council if on the reorganisation date the area of the single tier council includes that of the billing authority or county council; and

(b) where on the reorganisation date the area of a billing authority (whether or not a predecessor billing authority) or a predecessor county council is comprised in the areas of two or more single tier councils taken together, both or all of those single tier councils are related to the authority.”.