The Isle of Anglesey (Electoral Arrangements) Order 2012

This Statutory Instrument has been printed in substitution of the SI of the same number and is being issued free of charge to all known recipients of that Statutory Instrument.

Welsh Statutory Instruments

2012 No. 2676 (W.290)

LOCAL GOVERNMENT, WALES

The Isle of Anglesey (Electoral Arrangements) Order 2012

Made

24 October 2012

Coming into force in accordance with article 1(2)

The Local Government Boundary Commission for Wales has, in accordance with sections 57(2) and 58(3) of the Local Government Act 1972(1), submitted to the Welsh Ministers a report dated May 2012 on its review of, and proposals for a change in, the electoral arrangements within the county of the Isle of Anglesey(2).

The Welsh Ministers have decided to give effect to those proposals without modifications.

More than six weeks have elapsed since those proposals were submitted to the Welsh Ministers.

The Welsh Ministers make the following Order in exercise of the powers conferred on the Secretary of State by section 58(2) of the Local Government Act 1972 and now vested in them(3).

(1)

1972 c. 70. Section 58 was amended by section 40 of the Police and Magistrates' Courts Act 1994 (c. 29); paragraph 11 of Schedule 15 to the Local Government (Wales) Act 1994 (c19); and section 168 of the Local Government (Wales) Measure 2011(nawm 4).

(2)

In 1996 and in accordance with section 74 of the Local Government Act 1972, the name of the county was changed from Anglesey to the Isle of Anglesey by resolution of the county council and with the consent of the Secretary of State under section 74(6). Subsection (6) was repealed by the Statute Law (Repeals) Act 2004 (c. 14), Part 10 of Schedule 1.

(3)

The powers of the Secretary of State were transferred to the National Assembly for Wales by the National Assembly for Wales (Transfer of Functions) Order 1999 (S.I. 1999/672) and are now vested in the Welsh Ministers by virtue of paragraph 30 of Schedule 11 to the Government of Wales Act 2006 (c. 32).