Commentary on Sections

Part 7 – Communities and Community councils

Section 107 – Power of community meeting to apply for an order adding its community to a group of communities with a common council

120.Introduces a new section 27G in the 1972 Act to set out the conditions which must be met before a community meeting may apply to the principal council for its area for an order adding its community to a group of communities under a common community council. The provisions require the consent of all the communities involved in the prospective new grouping with the same thresholds applying as are introduced for establishing a community council under the new section 27A.