The Isle of Wight (Structural Change) Order 1994

This Order may be cited as the Isle of Wight (Structural Change) Order 1994.

This Order shall come into force on the day after the day on which it is made.

In this Order—

• “the 1990 Act” means the Town and Country Planning Act 19902;

• “borough councillor” means a councillor of the borough of Medina or of the borough of South Wight;

• “the Island” means the county of Isle of Wight, and “old electoral division” means an electoral division of that county established by the County of Isle of Wight (Electoral Arrangements) Order 19803;

• “the Island council” means the Isle of Wight County Council (renamed the Isle of Wight Council as from 1st April 1995) and “Island councillor” means a councillor of the Island council;

• “the maps” means the 10 maps prepared by the Department of the Environment, and marked “Maps of the Isle of Wight (Structural Change) Order 1994”;

• “Medina” means the borough of Medina, “the Medina council” means the Medina Borough Council, and “old Medina ward” means a ward of that borough established by the Borough of Medina (Electoral Arrangements) Order 19764; and

• “South Wight” means the borough of South Wight, “the South Wight council” means the South Wight Borough Council, and “old South Wight ward” means a ward of that borough established by the Borough of South Wight (Electoral Arrangements) Order 19765.

For the purposes of this Order6—

• “the preliminary date” means 3rd May 1994;

• “the electoral date” means 4th May 1995;

• “the establishment date” means 8th May 1995;

• “the shadow period” means the period commencing on the preliminary date, and terminating immediately prior to 1st April 1995; and

• “the reorganisation date” means 1st April 1995.

As from the establishment date, the Island council shall consist of 48 Island councillors.

New elections for Island councillors shall be held on the electoral date9.

Any Island councillor in office immediately prior to the establishment date who is not re-elected as such on the electoral date shall cease to hold office on the establishment date.

Island councillors elected on the electoral date shall come into office on the establishment date, and retire on 11th May 1998.

The next elections for Island councillors shall be held on 7th May 1998. The councillors then elected shall come into office on 11th May 1998, and retire on the fourth day after the ordinary day of election of councillors in 2001.

As from the reorganisation date, the Island council shall cease to exercise functions under Chapter II of Part II of the 1990 Act.

As from the reorganisation date, the Island council is to be treated as an authority to which Chapter I of Part II of the 1990 Act applies, and for this purpose, as if it were an area within a metropolitan county, and references to the local planning authority shall be construed accordingly.

In section 27 of the 1990 Act, delete the words, “for any district in Greater London or a metropolitan county (whether the whole or part of the area of a local planning authority)” and insert “for any area in the Isle of Wight (whether the whole or part of the area of the Island council)”.

Nothing in section 28 of the 1990 Act shall apply in the area of the Isle of Wight.

Until a unitary development plan becomes operative for the area of the Island council (or where parts of such a plan become operative on different dates until every part of such a plan has become operative) Part I of Schedule 2 to the 1990 Act (which provides for existing plans to continue in force) shall apply to that area, and Part III of that Schedule shall apply in relation to it for the purposes of making continuing provision for the transitional matters for which provision was made immediately before the commencement of the 1990 Act by Schedule 7 to the Town and Country Planning Act 197110 (old development plans, etc.).

In the application of Part I of Schedule 2 to the 1990 Act to the Island council, for the words “the commencement of this Act”, there shall be substituted “the commencement of this Order”.