Miscellaneous
Section 97: Supplementary regulations
220.This section allows the Secretary of State, by regulations, to make any supplementary incidental, consequential, transitional or supplementary provisions that may be needed to give effect to the new arrangements.
Section 98: Orders and regulations under this Chapter
221.This section allows principal councils, by order, to make any supplementary incidental, consequential, transitional or supplementary provisions that may be needed to give effect to the new arrangements. This includes provision with respect to the transfer of functions, property, rights and liabilities.
222.Subsection (6) provides for orders to include provision for the exclusion or modification of section 16 (3) or 90 of the Local Government Act 1972 and section 36 of the Representation of the People Act 1983.
223.Subsection (7) allows the Electoral Commission to make such incidental, consequential, transitional or supplementary provisions it believes are necessary when making an order under section 98.
Section 99: Agreements about incidental matters
224.This section provides for public bodies affected by reorganisation following a community governance review to make agreements about incidental matters and what those agreements may provide for.
225.Subsection (5) provides definitions of terms used within this section. This includes the definition of “public body” which has the same meaning as in section 16.
Section 100: Guidance
226.This section provides for the Secretary of State and the Electoral Commission to issue guidance relating to the conduct of community governance reviews, the making of recommendations about electoral arrangements and about changes to electoral areas of principal councils affected by recommendations made as part of a review and the implementation of recommendations made as part of the reviews. It requires principal councils to have regard to this guidance.
Section 102: Interpretation
227.This section defines terms used within this chapter and includes a list of the electoral arrangements of parish councils that principal councils can make recommendations on as part of a community governance review.
