The Local Government (Committees) (Devon and Cornwall) Regulations 1994

Made: 28th March 1994

Laid before Parliament: 7th April 1994

Coming into force: 28th April 1994

The Secretary of State, in exercise of the powers conferred on him by sections 13(4)(g) and 190(1) of the Local Government and Housing Act 1989[^f00001], and of all other powers enabling him in that behalf, hereby makes the following Regulations:

Citation and commencement

1

These Regulations may be cited as the Local Government (Committees) (Devon and Cornwall) Regulations 1994 and shall come into force on 28th April 1994.

Devon and Cornwall Development Bureau

2

• (1) In this regulation “the relevant authorities” means the councils of the counties of Devon and Cornwall and the councils of the districts within those counties.

• (2) To the extent that they are not already so prescribed[^f00002], the functions of the relevant authorities under section 33 of the Local Government and Housing Act 1989 are hereby prescribed for the purposes of section 13(4)(g) of that Act in so far as they are for the time being delegated—

• (a) to the joint committee established on 1st April 1985 by the councils of the counties of Devon and Cornwall and of the City of Plymouth, or

• (b) to any committee appointed in place of that committee by two or more of the relevant authorities, in relation to the promotion of the economic development of Devon and Cornwall.

Signed

Signed by authority of the Secretary of State

Tony Baldry — Parliamentary Under-Secretary of StateDepartment of the Environment — 28th March 1994

Explanatory note

(This note is not part of the Regulations)

Regulation 2 extends the ability to vote in respect of certain matters relating to the economic development of Devon and Cornwall to those members of the Devon and Cornwall Development Bureau who are not members of the local authorities which appointed that body as a joint committee of theirs.

Footnotes

[^f00001]: 1989 c. 42.

[^f00002]: By regulation 4(1)(d) of the Local Government (Committees and Political Groups) Regulations 1990 (S.I. 1990/1553).