The Local Government (Structural Changes) (Transfer of Functions, Property, Rights and Liabilities) Regulations 2008

Interpretation

2.—(1) In these Regulations—

“the Act” means the Local Government and Public Involvement in Health Act 2007;

“agreement”, except in regulations 14, 15 and 17(1)(b), means an agreement under section 16 of the Act;

“caretaker council” has the meaning given by regulation 13(1);

“default award”, means the arbitrator’s award in the arbitration of a disputed matter under section 16(3) of the Act (agreements about incidental matters)(1);

“nominated council” has the meaning given by regulation 10(1);

“preparing council” means a local authority which, in accordance with a section 7 order, becomes a single tier council on the reorganisation date;

“predecessor council”, in relation to a section 7 order, means a county or district council for whose winding up and dissolution the order provides;

“relevant instrument” means a statutory instrument made under the Act or, in connection with the Act or such an instrument, under any other Act, and includes these Regulations;

“the reorganisation date”, in relation to a predecessor council and a section 7 order, means the date specified in the order as that on which the council is to be wound up and dissolved;

“section 7 order” means an order under section 7 of the Act (implementation of proposals by order);

“single tier council” means the county or district council which, on the reorganisation date, becomes the principal authority for an area for which there is a single tier of local government(2); and

“successor council”—

but this is subject to paragraph (2).

(2) Where, as regards any period—

(a)which, for the purposes of the section 7 order relevant to a predecessor council, is a shadow period(3) or part of a transitional period(4) before the reorganisation date, and

(b)during which a provision of these Regulations requires or authorises steps to be taken by a successor council,

the definition of “successor council” shall have effect as if, for “that council” and “those councils”, there were substituted—

(i)as regards a shadow period, “the shadow authority”;

(ii)as regards part of a transitional period before the reorganisation date, “the preparing council”.

(3) Any reference in these Regulations to rights or liabilities of a predecessor council includes a reference to rights or liabilities acquired or incurred by any predecessor in title of that council.