3.—(1) On or after 1st April 2023 the North Yorkshire Council is the sole principal authority for North Yorkshire.
(2) For the purposes of enactments relating to local government, there shall be a new district, whose area shall be co-terminous with North Yorkshire; and the name of that new district is North Yorkshire.
(3) If the North Yorkshire Council passes a resolution that the word “county” should be omitted from its name, its name shall be “The North Yorkshire Council” and subsection (3) of section 2 of the 1972 Act (constitution of principal councils in England) shall cease to apply so far as it prescribes the name of the council.
4. On 1st April 2023—
(a)the following local government areas are abolished—
(i)the district of Craven;
(ii)the district of Hambleton;
(iii)the borough of Harrogate;
(iv)the district of Richmondshire;
(v)the district of Ryedale;
(vi)the borough of Scarborough; and
(vii)the district of Selby; and
(b)the district councils are wound up and dissolved.
5. Every person who holds office as a councillor of one of the district councils immediately before 1st April 2023 ceases to hold office on that date.