The District Electoral Areas Commissioner (Northern Ireland) (Amendment) Order 2009

Amendment of the 1984 Order

2.—(1) Schedule 2 (procedure) to the 1984 Order is amended as follows.

(2) In paragraph 1, for subparagraph (a) substitute—

(a)setting out the provisional recommendations or specifying places and times at which copies of the provisional recommendations may be inspected or both; and.

(3) In paragraph 1(b) for “one month” substitute “eight weeks”.

(4) In paragraph 7, which is to become paragraph 7(1) insert—

(a)before the words “In this Schedule”, “Subject to subparagraph (2),”; and

(b)after subparagraph (1)—

(2) Where the order made under section 50(10) of the Local Government Act (Northern Ireland) 1972(1) includes a change in the number and boundaries of local government districts the reference in paragraph 2(1)(a) to the “council of the district” is a reference to the council of the district in existence immediately prior to the making of that order, the whole or a major part of which is incorporated by or incorporates the successor district as constituted by that order..

(1)

1972 c. 9; section 50 has been amended by the Local Government (Boundaries) Act (Northern Ireland) 2008 (c.7).