The Cheshire and Greater Manchester (County and District Boundaries) Order 1992

Made: 24th August 1992

Laid before Parliament: 1st September 1992

Coming into force

The Secretary of State, in exercise of his powers under sections 51(2) and 67(4) of the Local Government Act 1972[^f00001] and of all other powers enabling him in that behalf, hereby makes the following Order which gives effect to proposals submitted to him under sections 47, 48(1) and 51(1) of that Act, more than six weeks before the making of this Order, by the Local Government Boundary Commission for England:

Citation and commencement

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• (1) This Order may be cited as the Cheshire and Greater Manchester (County and District Boundaries) Order 1992.

• (2) This Order shall come into force on 22nd September 1992 for any purpose set out in regulation 4(1) of the Local Government Area Changes Regulations 1976[^f00002].

• (3) For all other purposes, this Order shall come into force on 1st April 1993.

Interpretation

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In this Order—

• “Cheshire” means the county of Cheshire, and “Macclesfield” or “Warrington” means, in either case, the Cheshire borough of that name;

• “electoral division” means an electoral division of Cheshire;

• “Greater Manchester”means the metropolitan county of Greater Manchester, “Manchester” means the city of Manchester, and “Trafford” means the metropolitan borough of Trafford;

• “the map” means one of the 15 maps prepared by the Department of the Environment, marked “Maps of the Cheshire and Greater Manchester (County and District Boundaries) Order 1992”, and deposited in accordance with regulation 5 of the Local Government Area Changes Regulations 1976;

• any reference to an area as “unparished” is a reference to that area not forming part of any parish; and

• “ward”means a ward of the borough, city or metropolitan borough from or to which an area is transferred.

Transfers between Cheshire (Macclesfield and Warrington) and Greater Manchester (Trafford)

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Each area which is marked as shown in column 1 of the following Table on the map indicated in column 2 shall be transferred from the county, district and parish (or, where unparished, the ward) named in column 3 to the county, district, parish, petty sessional division and coroner’s district named in column 4.

Transfers within Greater Manchester from Manchester to Trafford

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Each area which is marked as shown in column 1 of the following Table on the map indicated in column 2 shall be transferred from Manchester, and from the ward (and parish, if any) named in column 3 to Trafford, and to the ward named in column 4, to the Trafford petty sessional division, and to the Greater Manchester South coroner’s district, and shall be unparished.

Transfers within Greater Manchester from Trafford to Manchester

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Each area which is marked as shown in column 1 of the following Table on the map indicated in column 2 shall be transferred from Trafford, and from the ward named in column 3 to Manchester, to the ward (and parish, if any) named in column 4, to the Manchester petty sessional division, and to the Manchester coroner’s district.

Town and country planning

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• (1) In this article, “provision” means a provision of a development plan (as defined in section 336(1) of the Town and Country Planning Act 1990[^f00003]).

• (2) Any provision applying to an area transferred by this Order shall continue to apply to that area, notwithstanding the transfer, until replaced by a provision which so applies, and which is expressed to supersede the preserved provision.

Signed

Signed by authority of the Secretary of State for the Environment

G. S. K. Young — Minister of State, — Department of the Environment — 24th August 1992

Explanatory note

(This note is not part of the Order)

This Order makes minor changes in the boundary between the county of Cheshire and the metropolitan county of Greater Manchester, affecting the Cheshire boroughs of Macclesfield and Warrington, and Greater Manchester metropolitan borough of Trafford. It also affects district boundaries within Greater Manchester by transferring areas between Trafford and the city of Manchester. Consequential changes to local government electoral areas, petty sessional divisions and coroners' districts are made.

The map and table forming part of this Note are a general guide only to the areas affected. The table gives in approximate terms the total amount of land and the population affected by each set of transfers. The detailed order maps described in article 2 should be inspected for full details of the transfers. Any person may inspect the maps at any reasonable time at the offices of each borough or city whose area is affected, and additionally at the offices of the Secretary of State for the Environment located in 2, Marsham Street, London SW1P 3EB.

The Local Government Area Changes Regulations 1976 contain general provisions regarding the effect of orders such as this one.

Footnotes

[^f00001]: 1972 c. 70.

[^f00002]: S.I. 1976/246, amended by S.I. 1978/247.

[^f00003]: 1990 c. 8. This definition was amended by the Planning and Compensation Act 1991 (c. 34), Schedule 4, paragraph 34.