Part 4E+WParishes

Chapter 3E+WReorganisation

88Existing parishes under reviewE+W

(1)A community governance review must make the following recommendations in relation to each of the existing parishes under review (if any).

(2)The review must make one of the following recommendations—

(a)recommendations that the parish should not be abolished and that its area should not be altered;

(b)recommendations that the area of the parish should be altered;

(c)recommendations that the parish should be abolished.

(3)The review must make recommendations as to whether or not the name of the parish should be changed.

(4)The review must make one of the following recommendations—

(a)if the parish does not have a council: recommendations as to whether or not the parish should have a council;

(b)if the parish has a council: recommendations as to whether or not the parish should continue to have a council.

(5)But the review may not make any recommendations for the parish—

(a)to begin to have an alternative style (if it does not already have one), or

(b)to cease to have an alternative style, or to have a different alternative style, (if it already has one).

(6)In this section—

(a)“existing parishes under review” means each of the parishes (if any) which are already in existence in the area under review;

(b)references to the alteration of an area of a parish are references to any alteration which is not the constitution of a new parish (within the meaning of section 87(2)).