The Neath Port Talbot and Swansea (Trebanos and Clydach) Order 2002

Welsh Statutory Instruments

2002 No. 652 (W.69)

LOCAL GOVERNMENT, WALES

The Neath Port Talbot and Swansea (Trebanos and Clydach) Order 2002

Made

5th March 2002

Coming into force in accordance with Article 1(2)

The Local Government Boundary Commission for Wales, has submitted to the National Assembly for Wales acting in accordance with section 54(1) and 58(1) of the Local Government Act 1972(1) a report dated March 2001 on its review of part of the areas of the County Borough of Neath Port Talbot and the City and County of Swansea (in the communities of Pontardawe and Clydach in the area of Pontardawe Road) together with the proposals they have formulated thereon;

and the National Assembly for Wales having decided to give effect to those proposals without modification;

and more than six weeks having elapsed since those proposals were made;

now the National Assembly for Wales in exercise of the powers given to the Secretary of State under section 58(2) of the Local Government Act 1972 which are now vested in the National Assembly for Wales so far as exercisable in Wales by virtue of the National Assembly for Wales (Transfer of Functions) Order 1999(2) makes the following Order:

Name and commencement

1.—(1) This Order is called the Neath Port Talbot and Swansea (Trebanos and Clydach) Order 2002.

(2) This Order shall come into force on 6th April 2002, which is the appointed day for the purposes of the Regulations, except that for the purpose of all proceedings preliminary or relating to an election to be held on or after that date this order shall come into force on the day after that on which it is made.

Interpretation

2.  In this Order—

• “the boundary map” (“y map ffiniau”) means the map prepared by the National Assembly for Wales and marked “Map of the Neath Port Talbot and Swansea (Trebanos and Clydach) Order 2002” and deposited in accordance with Regulation 5 of the Regulations 1976;

• “Neath Port Talbot” (“Castell-nedd Port Talbot”) means the County Borough of Neath Port Talbot;

• “the Regulations” (“y Rheoliadau”) means the Local Government Area Changes Regulations 1976 as amended(3);

• “Swansea” (“Abertawe”) means the City and County of Swansea.

Changes in Principal and Community Areas

3.  That part of Neath Port Talbot which is in the Trebanos ward in the community of Pontardawe which is shown hatched in black on the boundary map (which includes those properties numbered 162 to 172 Pontardawe Road) shall be separated from that county borough and community and shall form part of the Clydach ward in the community of Clydach in Swansea.

Signed on behalf of the National Assembly for Wales

Rhodri Morgan

First Minister

5th March 2002

Explanatory Note

(This note is not part of the Order)

This Order made in accordance with section 58(2) of the Local Government Act 1972 gives effect to proposals by the Local Government Boundary Commission for Wales. The effect of those proposals will see an area of the community of Pontardawe in Neath Port Talbot (shown hatched in black on the boundary map referred to in Article 2 of the Order) become part of the community of Clydach in Swansea. Those properties numbered 162 to 172 in Pontardawe Road will be directly affected.

Prints of the boundary map are deposited and may be inspected during normal office hours at the offices of Neath Port Talbot County Borough Council at Civic Centre, Port Talbot and at the offices of the City and County of Swansea, County Hall, Oystermouth Road, Swansea and at the offices of the National Assembly for Wales at Cathays Park, Cardiff (Local Government Modernisation Division).

The Local Government Area Changes Regulations 1976 (as amended) referred to in Article 2 of this Order contain incidental, consequential, transitional and supplementary provision about the effect and implementation of orders such as this.

(1)

1972 (c. 70).

(2)

(S.I. 1999/672).

(3)

S.I. 1976/246 as amended by the Local Government Area Changes (Amendment) Regulations 1978 S.I. 1978/247.