COMMENTED by
The Cheshire (Structural Changes) Order 2008 (Note)

EXTENDED by
The Cheshire (Structural Changes) Order 2008 (Memo)

The Cheshire (Structural Changes) Order 2008

Statutory Instruments

2008 No. 634

Local Government, England

The Cheshire (Structural Changes) Order 2008

Made

4th March 2008

Coming into force in accordance with article 1

This Order implements, without modification, a proposal, submitted to the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government under section 2 of the Local Government and Public Involvement in Health Act 2007(1), that there should be a single tier of local government for the county of Cheshire.

The proposal was made by Chester City Council, Ellesmere Port and Neston Borough Council, Macclesfield Borough Council and Vale Royal Borough Council, acting jointly.

The Secretary of State did not make a request under section 4 of the Local Government and Public Involvement in Health Act 2007 (request for Boundary Committee for England’s advice).

Before making the Order the Secretary of State consulted the following about the proposal—

(a) every authority affected by the proposal (except the authorities which made it); and

(b) other persons the Secretary of State considered appropriate.

A draft of this Order was laid before and approved by a resolution of each House of Parliament in accordance with section 240(6) of the Local Government and Public Involvement in Health Act 2007.

The Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government makes this Order in the exercise of the powers conferred by sections 7, 11, 12 and 13 of the Local Government and Public Involvement in Health Act 2007:

PART 1

GENERAL

Citation and commencement

1.  This Order may be cited as the Cheshire (Structural Changes) Order 2008 and shall come into force on the day after that on which this Order is made.

Interpretation

2.  In this Order—

“the 2007 Act” means the Local Government and Public Involvement in Health Act 2007;

“the 2000 Act” means the Local Government Act 2000(2);

“the 1972 Act” means the Local Government Act 1972(3);

“2008 election” means an election required by article 13(1) to be held in 2008;

“the 2008 election day” means the ordinary day of election of councillors(4) in 2008;

“article 16 functions” means—

(a)

in relation to the County Council, the functions referred to in article 16(1) and (2);

(b)

in relation to each of the East Cheshire councils, the function referred to in article 16(3); and

(c)

in relation to each of the West Cheshire councils, the function referred to in article 16(4);

“Cheshire”, unless immediately preceded or followed by “East” or “West”, means the non-metropolitan county of Cheshire as constituted immediately before 1st April 2009;

“Cheshire East”, except in references to the county of...

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