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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-local-government-structural-and-boundary-changes-supplementary-provision-and-miscellaneous-amendments-order-2019/note",
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  "legislation": "ukdsi/2019/9780111178058",
  "legislation_title": "The Local Government (Structural and Boundary Changes) (Supplementary Provision and Miscellaneous Amendments) Order 2019",
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  "heading": "Explanatory note",
  "text": "(This note is not part of the Order)\nPart 1 of the Local Government and Public Involvement in Health Act 2007 (c. 28) (”the 2007 Act”) provides for structural and boundary changes in relation to local government areas in England. Structural change is a change from two-tier local government (a county council and districts councils) in an area to a single tier of local government. There is a single tier of local government for an area if there is either a county council and no district councils for that area, or a district council and no county council for that area (section 1(2) of the 2007 Act). The Secretary of State may by order implement (with or without modification) a proposal received for a single tier of local government (section 7 of the 2007 Act). The Secretary of State may, by order under section 10, make boundary changes in relation to local authorities including changes which result in the abolition of existing local government areas and their councils and their replacement with new local government areas and councils. This order makes provision which is incidental, consequential, transitional and supplementary to the implementation by order of structural change in Dorset (S.I. 2018/648) (“the Dorset Order”) and of boundary change in East Suffolk (S.I. 2018/640) and Somerset West and Taunton (S.I. 2018/649).\nPart 2 of this Order makes provision about ceremonial matters. Article 2 provides for the appointment of Charter Trustees as appropriate bodies in which historic rights and privileges may vest for Bournemouth, Poole and Taunton. Regulations of general application, the Charter Trustees Regulations 2009 (S.I. 2009/467) have been made under section 14 of the 2007 Act to provide for the transfer of those rights and privileges to Charter Trustees. Article 3 makes special provision in relation to market rights granted by Royal Charters to Bournemouth Borough Council and Poole Borough Council to provide that these rights vest in Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole Council. Articles 4 and 5 make consequential amendments to the Lieutenancies Act 2007 (c. 23) and the Sheriffs Act 1887 (c. 55) to substitute for references to the counties of Bournemouth, Dorset and Poole references to the newly established counties of Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole and Dorset.\nPart 3 of this Order makes provision about vesting the local government pension fund that is maintained by Dorset County Council in the new Dorset Council and makes consequential amendments to the Local Government Pension Scheme Regulations 2013 (S.I. 2013/2356).\nPart 4 of this Order amends the Weymouth Port Health Authority Order 2018 (S.I. 2017/558) to reflect the changes to local authority arrangements as a consequence of the Dorset Order.\nPart 5 of this Order amends the Local Authorities (Capital Finance and Accounting) (England) Regulations 2003 (S.I. 2003/3146) to make provision for housing revenue account debt and share caps in relation to the newly established Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole Council, East Suffolk Council and Somerset West and Taunton Council.\nA full impact assessment has not been prepared as this instrument will have no impact on the costs of business and the voluntary sector.",
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  "version": "current",
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  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
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