Citation and commencement

1.-(1) This Order may be cited as the Greater Manchester and West Yorkshire (County and District Boundaries) Order 1992.

(2) This Order shall come into force on 2nd October 1992 for any purpose set out in regulation 4(1) of the Local Government Area Changes Regulations 1976(2).

(3) For all other purposes, this Order shall come into force on 1st April 1993.

Interpretation

2. In this Order-

• "district" includes a metropolitan borough and a city;

• any reference to Manchester is a reference to the district of that name, except in the expression "Greater Manchester", where it means the metropolitan county of Greater Manchester;

• "the map" means one of the 16 maps prepared by the Department of the Environment, marked "Maps of the Greater Manchester and West Yorkshire (County and District Boundaries) Order 1992", duly numbered for reference, and deposited in accordance with regulation 5 of the Local Government Area Changes Regulations 1976;

• any reference to Oldham, to Rochdale or to Tameside is a reference to the district of that name in Greater Manchester;

• any reference to an area as unparished is a reference to an area not forming part of any parish;

• any reference to a ward is a reference to a ward of the district from or to which an area is transferred; and

• "West Yorkshire" means the metropolitan county of West Yorkshire, any reference to Kirklees being a reference to the district of that name in that county.

Transfers from Greater Manchester (Oldham) to West Yorkshire (Kirklees)

3. The parts of the parish of Saddleworth marked A on map 7 and B on map 6 shall be transferred from Greater Manchester, from Oldham and from that parish to-

(a)West Yorkshire;

(b)Kirklees, and the Colne Valley West ward; and to

(c)the Huddersfield petty sessional division and the West Yorkshire Western coroner's district;

they shall become unparished.

Transfers within Greater Manchester between Oldham and Rochdale

4.-(1) Each area which is marked as shown in column 1 of the following Table on the map indicated in column 2 shall be transferred from Oldham and from the parish (or, if unparished, from the ward) named in column 3 to Rochdale, and to the ward and petty sessional division mentioned in column 4, becoming or remaining unparished.

(2) Each unparished area of Rochdale which is marked as shown in column 1 of the following Table on the map indicated in column 2 shall be transferred from Rochdale, and from the ward named in column 3 to Oldham, to the parish (if any) and ward mentioned in column 4, and to the Oldham petty sessional division.

Transfers within Greater Manchester between Oldham and Manchester

5.-(1) The following unparished areas of Manchester shown on map 9-

(i)the parts of Moston ward marked A, B, D, F, G and J; and

(ii)the parts of Newton Heath ward marked L, N, Q, S, U and W-

shall be transferred to Oldham, to the Failsworth West ward, to the Oldham petty sessional division and to the Greater Manchester North coroner's district, remaining unparished.

(2) Each area which is marked on the map as indicated in column 1 of the following Table shall be transferred from Oldham, and from the ward named in column 2 to Manchester, to the ward mentioned in column 3, and to the Manchester petty sessional division and the Manchester coroner's district, remaining unparished.

Transfers within Greater Manchester between Oldham and Tameside

6.-(1) Each area which is marked as shown in column 1 of the following Table on the map indicated in column 2 shall be transferred from Oldham, and from the ward named in column 3 to Tameside, to the ward mentioned in column 4, and to the Ashton-under-Lyne petty sessional division and the Greater Manchester South coroner's district, remaining unparished.

(2) Each area which is marked as shown in column 1 of the following Table on the map indicated in column 2 shall be transferred from Tameside, and from the ward named in column 3 to Oldham, to the ward mentioned in column 4, and to the Oldham petty sessional division and the Greater Manchester North coroner's district, remaining unparished.

Town and country planning

7.-(1) In this article, "provision" means a provision of a development plan (as defined in section 336(1) of the Town and Country Planning Act 1990(3)).

(2) Any provision applying to an area transferred by this Order shall continue to apply to that area, notwithstanding the transfer, until replaced by a provision which so applies, and which is expressed to supersede the preserved provision.

Explanatory Note

(This note is not part of the Order)

This Order makes minor alterations to the boundary between the metropolitan counties of Greater Manchester and West Yorkshire by transferring two small areas from Oldham in the former county to Kirklees in the latter.

This Order also transfers areas between metropolitan boroughs within Greater Manchester. Oldham, Rochdale, the city of Manchester, and Tameside are affected. The map and table at the end of this Note give a general guide to the areas affected and the changes made. The table also gives a approximate figure for the total area of land involved (in hectares), and for the population affected.

For full details of the transfers made, the order maps (described in article 2) should be inspected. Any person may inspect them at any reasonable time at the offices of the council for each metropolitan borough or city affected, and also at the offices of the Secretary of State for the Environment located in 2, Marsham Street, London SW1P 3EB.

Consequential changes are made to local government electoral areas, petty sessional divisions and coroners' districts. The Local Government Area Changes Regulations 1976 (S.I. 1976/246, amended by S.I. 1978/247) contain general provisions regarding the effect of orders such as this one.