The Local Government Area Changes Regulations 1976

Coming into operation of order

4.—(1) The following are purposes for which the order shall come into operation on such day earlier than the appointed day as may be specified therein—

(a) the application of sections 39 and 40 of the Local Government Act 1972;

(b) the preparation or the alteration of any register of electors under the Representation of the People Acts;

(c) any local government election under the said Acts or the Local Government Act 1972 for any area consisting of or comprising any area established or altered by the order and proceedings preliminary or relating thereto;

(d) any action under Part IV of, or Schedule 9 or 10 to, the Local Government Act 1972 in relation to electoral areas;

(e) the constitution of any body established by the order and proceedings preliminary or relating to the first meeting thereof;

(f) the annual assembly of any parish meeting;

(g) the making of any scheme under regulation 67 or 68;

(h) the appointment of any officer or the taking of any other action, and the incurring of any expenditure in relation thereto, by any authority to ensure their effective operation as from the appointed day;

(i) the alteration of any valuation list to take effect on the appointed day, the preparation or revision of any estimate of the product of a rate of a new penny in the pound, the preparation or service of any precept to be made in respect of a period commencing on the appointed day and the preparation or approval of any rate to be made in respect of a period commencing on the appointed day; and

(j) any provision of these regulations or of the order which expressly refers to the coming into operation of the order or requires or enables action to be taken before the appointed day.

(2) If new valuation lists are to come into force on the appointed day, and the order comes into operation more than 5 months before that day, in item (i) of paragraph (1) for the first 13 words there shall be substituted “the preparation of any valuation list to come into force on the appointed day,”.

(3) Nothing in this regulation authorises the appointment of the chief officer of a new fire brigade to take effect before the appointed day.