{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/kent-district-boundaries-order-1987/article-12",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/kent-district-boundaries-order-1987/article-12.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1987/305",
  "legislation_title": "The Kent (District Boundaries) Order 1987",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/kent-district-boundaries-order-1987",
  "path": "article/12",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "12",
  "heading": "Parishes in the borough of Dartford",
  "text": "(1) There shall be created in the borough of Dartford a new parish of Longfield which shall consist of—\n(a) the areas transferred to the borough of Dartford by articles 10 and 11 above; and\n(b) the area of the parish of Southfleet in the borough of Dartford which is marked 4 on boundary map 4.\n(2) There shall be a parish council for the new parish.\n(3) From 1st April 1987 until the fourth day after the ordinary day of elections in 1987 the parish council of the new parish shall consist of the councillors representing the parish of Longfield in the district of Sevenoaks immediately before 1st April 1987. Thereafter it shall consist of 12 parish councillors.\n(4) The proper officer of the Dartford Borough Council shall convene—\nthe first annual meeting of the parish council for the new parish; and the first assembly of the parish meeting for the new parish.\nIf in the new parish the first assembly of the parish meeting is held before the first annual meeting of the parish council, the parish meeting may appoint a person to take the chair, who shall have, for the purpose of that occasion only, the powers and authority of the chairman.\n(5) In the financial year beginning on 1st April 1987, the Dartford Borough Council shall levy rates in the new parish, and make payments to the parish council of the new parish, as if that parish council had issued a precept to the borough council requiring the payment of a sum equal to the product of a rate of 1.44 pence in the pound, calculated on the total rateable value of the new parish as set out in the valuation list at the beginning of that financial year.\n(6) The South ward of the parish of Southfleet shall be abolished, and the part of that ward not transferred under paragraph (1)(b) above shall become part of the Central ward of the parish of Southfleet.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1987/305/article/12",
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  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}