The Local Government (Structural Changes) (Miscellaneous Amendments and Other Provision) Order 2009

PART 3 PROVISIONS RELATING TO CEREMONIAL MATTERS

Charter Trustees

8.—(1) There shall be established for each area listed in the second column of the table in the Schedule to this Order a body corporate to be known by the name specified in relation to that area in the first column of that table.

(2) The charter trustees for a body listed in the first column of the table in the Schedule are the councillors for the time being for the electoral areas specified in the entry for that body in the second column of the Schedule as being comprised in that body’s area.

Market Rights in Chester

9.  The rights to hold markets in the City of Chester arising from the various Charters granted by the Earldom of Chester and by the Crown (1), shall vest in Cheshire West and Chester Council.

Lord-Lieutenants

10.  In the Lieutenancies Act 1997 (2), in Schedule 1 (counties and areas for the purposes of lieutenancies in Great Britain), in the second column of the table in paragraph 3 —

(a) for “Bedfordshire” (against the entry “Bedfordshire” in the first column), substitute “Bedford, Central Bedfordshire”;

(b) for “Cheshire” (against the entry “Cheshire” in the first column) (3) substitute “Cheshire East, Cheshire West and Chester, and”.

Sheriffs

11.  In the Sheriffs Act 1887(4), in Schedule 2A (counties in England for the purposes of the Act), in the second column of the table—

(a) for “Bedfordshire” (against the entry “Bedfordshire” in the first column), substitute “Bedford, Central Bedfordshire”; and

(b) for “Cheshire” (against the entry “Cheshire” in the first column) (5) substitute “Cheshire East, Cheshire West and Chester, and”.

(1)

In particular rights are granted in the Charter of Earl Ranulph III of Chester between 1208 and 1218 which was confirmed by King Henry III on 22 October 1239; and in the Charter of King Edward I dated 12 June 1300, the Great Charter of King Henry VII dated 6 April 1506, and in the Letters patent granted by King Charles II dated 4 February 1685.

(2)

1997 c. 23.

(3)

The entry for Cheshire was inserted by S.I. 1997/1992.

(4)

1887 c. 55; Schedule 2A was added by regulation 8 of S.I. 1995/1748.

(5)

The entry for Cheshire was inserted by S.I. 1997/1992.