The Local Government (Structural and Boundary Changes) (Supplementary Provision and Miscellaneous Amendments) Order 2019

Part 1 of the Local Government and Public Involvement in Health Act 2007 (c. 28) (”the 2007 Act”) provides for structural and boundary changes in relation to local government areas in England. Structural change is a change from two-tier local government (a county council and districts councils) in an area to a single tier of local government. There is a single tier of local government for an area if there is either a county council and no district councils for that area, or a district council and no county council for that area (section 1(2) of the 2007 Act). The Secretary of State may by order implement (with or without modification) a proposal received for a single tier of local government (section 7 of the 2007 Act). The Secretary of State may, by order under section 10, make boundary changes in relation to local authorities including changes which result in the abolition of existing local government areas and their councils and their replacement with new local government areas and councils. This order makes provision which is incidental, consequential, transitional and supplementary to the implementation by order of structural change in Dorset (S.I. 2018/648) (“the Dorset Order”) and of boundary change in East Suffolk (S.I. 2018/640) and Somerset West and Taunton (S.I. 2018/649).