# The Local Government Changes (Rent Act Registration Areas) Order 1995

S.I. 1995/3264 · made 14 December 1995

Registration areas are the organisational units for the rent officer service and rent assessment committees. Section 62 of the Rent Act 1977 provides that registration areas for the purposes of Part IV (Registration of Rent Under Regulated Tenancies) of that Act outside London are counties. Article 2 of this Order redefines the registration areas named in that article, as a consequence of the abolition of the counties in Avon, Cleveland, Humberside and the reorganisation of North Yorkshire under the provisions of the Local Government Act 1992, and includes the county of York within the registration area of North Yorkshire.

Made under: Local Government Act 1992 (Section 17, Section 26)

## Introductory text

LOCAL GOVERNMENT, ENGLAND AND WALES
Made 14th December 1995
Laid before Parliament 21st December 1995
Coming into force 1st April 1996
The Secretary of State, in exercise of the powers conferred upon him by sections 17 and 26 of the Local Government Act 1992 and of all powers enabling him in that behalf, hereby makes the following Order—

## 1 Citation and commencement

This Order may be cited as the Local Government Changes (Rent Act Registration Areas) Order 1995 and shall come into force on 1st April 1996.

## 2 Amendment of registration areas

For the purposes of Part IV of the Rent Act 1977 (registration of rents under regulated tenancies) there shall be—
(a) the Avon registration area comprising the counties of—
(i) Bath and North East Somerset;
(ii) the City of Bristol;
(iii) North West Somerset; and
(iv) South Gloucestershire;
(b) the Cleveland registration area comprising the counties of—
(i) Hartlepool;
(ii) Middlesbrough;
(iii) Redcar and Cleveland; and
(iv) Stockton-on-Tees;
(c) the Humberside registration area comprising the counties of—
(i) the City of Kingston upon Hull;
(ii) the East Riding of Yorkshire;
(iii) North East Lincolnshire; and
(iv) North Lincolnshire; and
(d) the North Yorkshire registration area comprising the counties of North Yorkshire and York.

## Signature

Signed by authority of the Secretary of State
David Curry
Minister of State,
Department of the Environment
14th December 1995

## Explanatory note

(This note is not part of the Order)
Registration areas are the organisational units for the rent officer service and rent assessment committees. Section 62 of the Rent Act 1977 provides that registration areas for the purposes of Part IV (Registration of Rent Under Regulated Tenancies) of that Act outside London are counties. Article 2 of this Order redefines the registration areas named in that article, as a consequence of the abolition of the counties in Avon, Cleveland, Humberside and the reorganisation of North Yorkshire under the provisions of the Local Government Act 1992, and includes the county of York within the registration area of North Yorkshire.

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