The Warwickshire and West Midlands (County and District Boundaries) Order 1993

Made: 1st March 1993

Laid before Parliament: 10th March 1993

Coming into force for the purposes

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, with modifications, 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 Warwickshire and West Midlands (County and District Boundaries) Order 1993.

• (2) This Order shall come into force on 1st December 1993 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 1994.

Interpretation

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In this Order–

• “district” includes a metropolitan borough and a city;

• “electoral division” means an electoral division of the county of Warwickshire;

• “the map” means one of the 14 maps prepared by the Department of the Environment, marked “Maps of the Warwickshire and West Midlands (County and District Boundaries) Order 1993”, duly numbered for reference, 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;

• “ward” means a ward of the district from or to which an area is transferred;

• “Warwickshire” means the county of Warwickshire, and any reference to Nuneaton and Bedworth, to Rugby, to Warwick or to North Warwickshire is a reference to the Warwickshire district of that name; and “West Midlands” means the metropolitan county of West Midlands, and any reference to Coventry or to Solihull is a reference to the West Midlands district of that name.

Transfers between Warwickshire (Rugby) and West Midlands (Coventry)

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• (1) Each area which is marked as shown in column 1 of the following Table on map 1 shall be transferred from Warwickshire, from Rugby and from the parish named in column 2 to Coventry, to the ward named in column 3, and to the Coventry District petty sessional division and the Coventry coroner’s district, becoming unparished.

• (2) Each unparished area which is marked as shown in column 1 of the following Table on map 1 shall be transferred from West Midlands, from Coventry, and from the ward named in column 3 to–

• (a) Warwickshire;

• (b) Rugby;

• (c) the parish, ward and electoral division named in column 4; and to

• (d) the Rugby petty sessional division and the Warwickshire coroner’s district.

Transfers between Warwickshire (other districts) and West Midlands (Coventry)

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• (1) 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 district and the parish (or, if unparished, from the ward) named in column 3 to West Midlands, to Coventry, to the ward (and the parish, if any) named in column 4, and to the Coventry petty sessional division and the Coventry coroner’s district.

• (2) 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 West Midlands, from Coventry, and from the parish (or, if unparished, from the ward) named in column 3 to–

• (a) the district, parish (if any), ward, electoral division and petty sessional division named in column 4; and to

• (b) the Warwickshire coroner’s district.

Transfers from West Midlands (Solihull) to Warwickshire (Warwick)

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• (1) The parts of the parish of Berkswell marked A on map 4 and A and B on map 12 shall be transferred from West Midlands, and from Solihull to Warwickshire, to Warwick, and to the Mid-Warwickshire petty sessional division and the Warwickshire coroner’s district. The area marked A on map 4 shall additionally be transferred to the parish of Stoneleigh, the Stoneleigh ward and the Kenilworth Stoneleigh electoral division, and the areas marked A and B on map 12 to the parish of Kenilworth, the Abbey ward, and the Kenilworth Abbey electoral division.

Transfer within Warwickshire from Warwick to Rugby

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The area marked A on map 10 shall be transferred from Warwick and from the parish of Baginton to Rugby, to the parish of Ryton-on-Dunsmore, to the Ryton-onDunsmore ward, to the Earl Craven electoral division, and to the Rugby petty sessional division.

Transfers within West Midlands between Coventry and Solihull

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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 district and parish (or, if unparished, from the ward) named in column 3 to the district, parish (if any), ward, petty sessional division and coroner’s district named in column 4.

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Signed

Signed by authority of the Secretary of State for the Environment

Robin Squire — Parliamentary Under Secretary of State, — Department of the Environment — 1st March 1993

Explanatory note

(This note is not part of the Order)

This Order makes changes in the boundary between the county of Warwickshire and the metropolitan county of West Midlands, affecting the Warwickshire districts of Rugby, Nuneaton and Bedworth, North Warwickshire, and Warwick, and the West Midlands districts of Coventry and Solihull. It also transfers areas between districts within those counties, affecting the boundary between Rugby and Warwick, and between Coventry and Solihull. 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 map[s] 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 city, borough, metropolitan borough or district 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.