LegalizeThe Returning Officers (Principal Areas: Wales) Order 1995
Made: 24th January 1995
Coming into force: 31st January 1995
The Secretary of State, in exercise of the powers conferred on him by paragraph 3(1) of Schedule 5 to the Local Government Act 1972[^f00001], hereby makes the following Order:
1
This Order may be cited as the Returning Officers (Principal Areas: Wales) Order 1995 and shall come into force on 31st January 1995.
2
At the first elections of councillors for each new principal area in Wales, the returning officer shall be an officer of the council appointed by the existing council designated in column 2 of the Schedule to this Order opposite to the designation in column 1 thereof of the new principal area concerned.
SCHEDULE — EXISTING COUNCILS TO APPOINT RETURNING OFFICERS AT FIRST ELECTIONS OF COUNCILLORS FOR NEW PRINCIPAL AREAS
| (1) | (2) |
|---|---|
| New principal area | Appointing Council |
| County Borough of Aberconwy and Colwyn | Colwyn Borough Council |
| County of Anglesey | Ynys Môn—Isle of Anglesey Borough Council |
| County Borough of Blaenau Gwent | Blaenau Gwent Borough Council |
| County Borough of Bridgend | Ogwr Borough Council |
| County of Caernarfonshire and Merionethshire | Arfon Borough Council |
| County Borough of Caerphilly | Islwyn Borough Council |
| County of Cardiff | Cardiff City Council |
| County of Cardiganshire | Cyngor Dosbarth Ceredigion |
| County of Carmarthenshire | Llanelli Borough Council |
| County of Denbighshire | Rhuddlan Borough Council |
| County of Flintshire | Alyn and Deeside District Council |
| County Borough of Merthyr Tydfil | Merthyr Tydfil Borough Council |
| County of Monmouthshire | Monmouth Borough Council |
| County Borough of Neath and Port Talbot | Neath Borough Council |
| County Borough of Newport | Newport Borough Council |
| County of Pembrokeshire | Preseli Pembrokeshire District Council |
| County of Powys | Montgomeryshire District Council |
| County Borough of Rhondda, Cynon, Taff | on Valley Borough Council |
| County of Swansea | Swansea City Council |
| County Borough of Torfaen | Torfaen Borough Council |
| County Borough of the Vale of Glamorgan | Vale of Glamorgan Borough Council |
| County Borough of Wrexham | Wrexham Maelor Borough Council |
Signed
Blatch — Minister of State — 24th January 1995
Explanatory note
(This note is not part of the Order)
This Order designates, for the purposes of the first elections of councillors for the new principal areas in Wales established under the Local Government (Wales) Act 1994, the existing councils which are to appoint the returning officer for each such area.
By virtue of the Welsh Principal Councils (Day of Election) Order 1994 (S.I. 1994/2843), the first elections of councillors of the new principal councils in Wales will be held on 4th May 1995.
Footnotes
[^f00001]: 1972 c. 70. Schedule 5 was substituted by section 3 of and Schedule 3 to the Local Government (Wales) Act 1994 (c. 19).
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