The Neath Port Talbot and Powys (Cwmtwrch) Order 2004

Welsh Statutory Instruments

2004 No. 2746 (W.244)

LOCAL GOVERNMENT, WALES

The Neath Port Talbot and Powys (Cwmtwrch) Order 2004

Made

13 October 2004

Coming into force in accordance with Article 1(2)

The Local Government Boundary Commission for Wales, having submitted to the National Assembly for Wales, in accordance with sections 54(1) and 58(1) of the Local Government Act 1972(1), a report dated May 2003 on its review of part of the boundary between the County Borough of Neath Port Talbot and the County of Powys in the area of Cwmtwrch, together with the proposals formulated by the Commission;

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 submitted to the National Assembly for Wales;

Now the National Assembly for Wales, in exercise of the powers given to the Secretary of State by section 58(2) of the Local Government Act 1972 and which are vested in the National Assembly for Wales so far as exercisable in relation to Wales(2), makes the following Order:

Name and commencement

1.—(1) This Order is called the Neath Port Talbot and Powys (Cwmtwrch) Order 2004.

(2) This Order comes into force on 1 April 2005, which is the appointed day for the purposes of the Regulations, except that for the purposes set out in regulation 4(1) of the Regulations, this Order comes into force on 1 December 2004.

Interpretation

2.  “the boundary map” (“y map ffiniau”) means the map prepared by the National Assembly for Wales and marked “Boundary Map of the Neath Port Talbot and Powys (Cwmtwrch) Order 2004” and deposited in accordance with Regulation 5 of the Regulations;

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

Changes in County boundaries

3.  The boundary between the County Borough of Neath Port Talbot and the County of Powys in the area of Cwmtwrch is amended in accordance with Article 4.

New County boundary

4.  The boundary between those parts of the County Borough of Neath Port Talbot and the County of Powys in the area of Cwmtwrch which are shown on the boundary map is to include that shown on the boundary map as “New County Boundary/New Preserved County Boundary” with the result that the area of land shown hatched on the boundary map is to be included in the County of Powys instead of in the County Borough of Neath Port Talbot.

Consequential change to electoral divisions

5.  The boundaries of the Ystalyfera ward in the community of Ystalyfera (which forms part of the Ystalyfera electoral division), and the Cwmtwrch ward in the community of Ystradgynlais (in the Cwmtwrch electoral division) are amended so as to coincide with the boundary as amended by article 4.

Consequential change to Preserved County Boundary

6.  The boundaries of the preserved counties of West Glamorgan and Powys are amended so as to coincide with the boundary between the County Borough of Neath Port Talbot and the County of Powys as amended by article 4.

Signed on behalf of the National Assembly for Wales.

Sue Essex

The Minister for Finance, Local Government and Public Services

13 October 2004

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 of the Local Government Boundary Commission for Wales.

The Local Government Boundary Commission for Wales (“the Commission”) reported in May 2003 on a review conducted by the Commission of part of the boundary between the County Borough of Neath Port Talbot and the County of Powys in the area of Cwmtwrch. The report recommended changes to part of the existing boundary, the effect of which would be that part of the community of Ystalyfera in the area of Cwmtwrch (shown hatched black on the boundary map and referred to in the Order) at present in the County Borough of Neath Port Talbot, would form part of the Community of Ystradgynlais in the County of Powys. This Order gives effect to those recommendations without modification.

Copies of the boundary map showing the new boundary 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, at the offices of Powys County Council at County Hall Llandrindod Wells, Powys and at the offices of the National Assembly for Wales at Cathays Park, Cardiff.

The Local Government Area Changes Regulations 1976 (as amended) (“the 1976 Regulations”), referred to in Article 1(2) of this Order contain incidental, consequential, transitional and supplementary provisions about the effect and implementation of orders such as this.

There are consequential changes to the electoral divisions of Ystalyfera and Cwmtwrch to correspond with the new community boundary, and to the boundary between the preserved counties of West Glamorgan and Powys reflecting the change to the boundary between the County Borough and County which, respectively, form part of those preserved counties.

(1)

1972 c. 70.

(2)

See the National Assembly for Wales (Transfer of Functions) Order 1999 (S.I. 1999/672), article 2 and Schedule 1.

(3)

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