Explanatory note

Under section 14 of the Local Government and Rating Act 1997 the Secretary of State may give effect to recommendations about the creation, abolition or alteration of parishes, made under section 9 of that Act, or to a petition calling for the creation of a parish or parish council, sent to the Secretary of State under section 11 of that Act.

These Regulations make transitional and consequential provisions, in relation to a parish council or a chairman of the parish meeting for a new parish and the financial year in which the new parish is constituted, regarding calculation of the billing authority’s and new parish council’s or chairman’s budget requirements, the anticipation, issue and payment of sums in respect of precepts, the designation of authorities under section 54 of the Local Government Finance Act 1992, and information under section 64 of that Act.