Explanatory Notes

Commentary on Sections

Part 7 – Communities and Community councils

Section 111 – Power of community meeting to apply for order separating community from a group of communities

124.Introduces a new section 27K in the 1972 Act to set out the conditions which must be met before a community meeting may apply to the principal council for its area for an order separating the community from a group of communities. The provisions are essentially the same as those for dissolving a separate community council under the new section 27C.