Local Government and Public Involvement in Health Act 2007

92 County, district or London borough: consequential recommendations

(1) This section applies if a community governance review makes recommendations under any other provision of this Chapter.

(2) The review may make recommendations to the Electoral Commission as to what related alteration (if any) should be made to the boundaries of the electoral areas of any affected principal council.

(3) The Electoral Commission may by order give effect to recommendations made under subsection (2).

(4) The Electoral Commission must notify each relevant principal council of whether or not the Commission have given effect to recommendations made under subsection (2).

(5) If the Electoral Commission have given effect to the recommendations, they must also send each relevant principal council two copies of the order under this section.

(6) In this section—

• “affected principal council” means any principal council whose area the community governance review relates to (including the council carrying out the review);

• “related” means related to the other recommendations made under this Chapter.

• “relevant principal council”, in relation to recommendations under subsection (2), means—

  (a)

  the principal council that made the recommendations, and

  (b)

  if the recommendations are made by a district council for an area for which there is a county council, the county council.