29 Orders for grouping communities, dissolving groups and separating communities from groups. W
(1)A community meeting of a community may, at any time except as provided by section 30 below, apply to the district council for an order grouping the community with some neighbouring community or communities in the same district under a common community council or by adding the community to an existing group of such communities under such a council, and the district council may thereupon make an order accordingly, but subject to subsection (2) below.
(2)Communities shall not be grouped without the consent of a community meeting of each of the communities.
(3)A grouping order shall make the necessary provision—
(a)for the name of the group;
(b)for the election in accordance with this Act and Part I of the [F1Representation of the People Act 1983] of separate representatives on the community council for each community or for the wards of any community or, in the case of an order which adds a community to the group, for that community or for the wards of that community;
(c)for the application to the communities included in the group of all or any of the provisions of [F2section 79 of the Charities Act 1993] (parochial charities) and of any of the provisons of this Act with respect to the custody of community documents, so as to preserve the separate rights of each community;
(d)for the dissolution of the separate community council of any community included in the group;
and the order may provide for any necessary adaptations of this Act to the group of communities.
(4)The council of a group of communities or a community meeting of a community included in a group of communities may, at any time except as provided by section 30 below, apply to the district council for an order dissolving the group or separating one or more of those communities from the group, and the district council may thereupon make an order accordingly, and an order so made shall make such provision as appears to the district council to be necessary for the election of a community council for any of the communities in the group, where it is dissolved, and for any of the communities separated from the group, where it is not.
Textual Amendments
F1Words substituted by Representation of the People Act 1983 (c. 2, SIF 42), s. 206, Sch. 8 para. 12
F2Words in s. 29(3)(c) substituted (1.8.1993) by 1993 c. 10, ss. 98(1), 99(1), Sch. 6 para. 12(2).
Modifications etc. (not altering text)
C1S. 29 excluded by S.I. 1979/1123, art. 4(2)
C2S. 29(1) restricted (5.7.1994) by 1994 c. 19, s. 66(2)(b)(7), Sch. 17 Pt. II para. 9 (with ss. 54(5)(7), 55(5), Sch. 17 paras. 22(1), 23(2))