Joint committees: corresponding documents and corresponding schemes
47.—(1) The period prescribed for the purposes of section 31(6) is 3 months starting on the day on which the Secretary of State revokes under section 31(2) an order under section 29 (joint committees).
(2) Subject to paragraph (5), for the purposes of section 31(3) and (6) a corresponding document is a document which–
(a)does not relate to any part of the area of the constituent authority which requested the revocation of the order; and
(b)with respect to the area of the successor authority, has substantially the same effect as the original LDD.
(3) For the purposes of section 31(3), a corresponding scheme is a scheme of a successor authority which–
(a)specifies a document that is a corresponding document for the purposes of section 31(3), but
(b)does not specify the original LDD,
as a document which is to be an LDD.
(4) In paragraph (3)(b) “original LDD” means an LDD prepared by the joint committee constituted by the order under section 29.
(5) Paragraph (2)(a) does not apply where the constituent authority is a county council for which there is also a district council.