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The Local Government Changes (Rent Act Registration Areas) Order 1996

S.I. 1996/2547 · Made 7 October 1996

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LOCAL GOVERNMENT, ENGLAND AND WALES

Made 7th October 1996

Laid before Parliament 15th October 1996

Coming into force 1st April 1997

The Secretary of State, in exercise of the powers conferred upon him by sections 17 and 26 of the Local Government Act 1992f1 and of all powers enabling him in that behalf, hereby makes the following Order—

Annotations to the whole text

Footnotes

f1

1992 c. 19 and see regulation 3 of the Local Government Changes (Rent Act) Regulations 1995 (S.I. 1995/2451).

Contents

  1. 1Citation and commencement
  2. 2Amendment of registration areas
  3. Signature
  4. Explanatory note

1Citation and commencement

This Order may be cited as the Local Government Changes (Rent Act Registration Areas) Order 1996 and shall come into force on 1st April 1997.

2Amendment of registration areas

For the purposes of Part IV of the Rent Act 1977 (registration of rents under regulated tenancies)f1 there shall be—

(a)

the Bedfordshire registration area comprising the countiesf2 of Bedfordshire and Luton;

(b)

the Buckinghamshire registration area comprising the countiesf3 of Buckinghamshire and Milton Keynes;

(c)

the Derbyshire registration area comprising the countiesf4 of Derbyshire and Derby;

(d)

the Dorset registration area comprising the countiesf5of—

(i)

Bournemouth;

(ii)

Dorset; and

(iii)

Poole;

(e)

the Durham registration area comprising the countiesf6 of Darlington and Durham;

(f)

the East Sussex registration area comprising the countiesf7 of Brighton and Hove and East Sussex;

(g)

the Hampshire registration area comprising the countiesf8 of—

(i)

Hampshire;

(ii)

Portsmouth; and

(iii)

Southampton;

(h)

the Leicestershire registration area comprising the countiesf9 of—

(i)

Leicestershire;

(ii)

Leicester; and

(iii)

Rutland;

(i)

the Staffordshire registration area comprising the countiesf10 of Staffordshire and Stoke-on-Trent;

(j)

the Wiltshire registration area comprising the countiesf11 of Thamesdown and Wiltshire.

Signature

Signed by authority of the Secretary of State

David Curry

Minister of State,

Department of the Environment

7th October 1996

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 reorganisation of the counties named in that article under the provisions of the Local Government Act 1992.