The Torfaen (Communities) Order 2013

Welsh Statutory Instruments

2013 No. 2156 (W. 211)

Local Government, Wales

The Torfaen (Communities) Order 2013

Made

28 August 2013

The Local Government Boundary Commission for Wales have submitted to the Welsh Ministers, in accordance with sections 54(1) and 58(1) of the Local Government Act 1972(1), a report dated January 2013 on a review carried out by Torfaen County Borough Council on the community boundaries for the County of Torfaen, together with the proposals the Commission have formulated on the community boundaries.

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

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 those powers conferred on the Secretary of State by section 58(2) of the Local Government Act 1972 and now vested in them so far as exercisable in relation to Wales(2).

(1)

1972 c.70; section 54(1) was amended by paragraph 7(1) of Schedule 15 to the Local Government (Wales) Act 1994 (c.19), paragraph 12 of Schedule 3 to the Local Government Act 1992 (c.19) and section 40(2) of the Police and Magistrates Court Act 1994 (c.29); section 58(1) was amended by paragraph 11(1) of Schedule 15 to the Local Government (Wales) Act 1994 (c.19), and section 168(2) of the Local Government (Wales) Measure 2011 (c.4).

(2)

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).