(1)The council of a [F1non-metropolitan county or metropolitan district] may from time to time prepare and submit to the Minister schemes for all or any of the purposes mentioned in the last foregoing section.
(2)In the case of any [F1non-metropolitan county or metropolitan district] created after the commencement of this Act, the council of that [F1non-metropolitan county or metropolitan district] shall prepare and submit to the Minister a local scheme within such period as the Minister may allow.
(3)Any scheme under this section shall fix the date or dates on which the scheme is to come into operation and may fix different dates for different provisions of the scheme or for different areas and the dates so fixed may be made dependent on the happening of specified events.
(4)No such scheme shall be of any effect unless and until it is approved by the Minister, and the Minister, after considering any representations with respect to the scheme which may be submitted to him by any officer affected, may approve the scheme with or without modifications.
(5)If—
(a)it appears to the Registrar General at any time that by reason of special circumstances an immediate adjustment is necessary in the division of any [F1non-metropolitan county or metropolitan district] into districts and sub-districts; or
(b)a council required by subsection (2) of this section to submit a local scheme to the Minister fails to do so within the period allowed by the Minister,
the Registrar General may, after consultation with the council of the [F1non-metropolitan county or metropolitan district] concerned, prepare a scheme for the purpose, and any scheme so prepared by him, if approved by the Minister, shall have effect as it it were a scheme submitted by the council and approved by the Minister in accordance with this section.
(6)Any scheme under this section may contain such incidental, consequential or supplemental provisions as may appear necessary or proper for the purposes of the scheme and may be varied or revoked by a subsequent scheme made in like manner as the original scheme:
Provided that a scheme prepared by the Registrar General and approved by the Minister under the last foregoing subsection may be varied or revoked either by a subsequent scheme so prepared and approved or by a subsequent scheme submitted by the council concerned and approved by the Minister in accordance with this section.
Textual Amendments
F1Words substituted by Local Government Act 1972 (c. 70), Sch. 29 para. 41(2)
Modifications etc. (not altering text)
C1S. 14: functions of the Secretary of State transferred (1.4.1996) by S.I. 1996/273, art. 3(1), Sch. 1 para. 9(a)
C2S. 14 transfer of functions (3.4.2008) by Transfer of Functions (Registration) Order 2008 (S.I. 2008/678), art. 1(2), Sch. 1 para. 7(a) (with art. 4)
C3S. 14(4) applied (8.1.1997) by S.I. 1996/3118, art. 2(1)