(1)Where, as a result of the creation of new principal areas by this Act, the communities within an existing group of communities will not all be within the same new principal area, the district council concerned shall, before 1st April 1996 make an order—
(a)dissolving the group; or
(b)separating one or more of the communities from the group in order to secure that the remaining members of the group will all be within the same new principal area.
(2)Any order under subsection (1) shall make such provision as appears to the district council necessary for the election, in accordance with the 1972 Act and Part I of the Representation of the M1People Act 1983, of a community council for any community which, as a result of the order, is no longer a member of the group.
(3)Section 31 of the 1972 Act (provisions supplementary to sections 27 to 29 of that Act), applies in relation to an order made under this section as it applies to one made under section 29 of that Act.