The Cheshire and Merseyside (County Boundaries) Order 1992

• Citation: S.I. 1992/1992
• Sections: 5

Section 1 Citation and commencement

(1) This Order may be cited as the Cheshire and Merseyside (County Boundaries) Order 1992.

(2) This Order shall come into force on 15th September 1992 for any purpose set out in regulation 4(1) of the Local Government Area Changes Regulations 1976 .

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

Section 2 Interpretation

In this Order—

“Cheshire” means the county of Cheshire,

and “Ellesmere Port” means the borough of Ellesmere Port and Neston in that county;

“electoral division” means an electoral division of Cheshire;

“the map” means one of the 3 maps prepared by the Department of the Environment, marked “Maps of the Cheshire and Merseyside (County Boundaries) Order 1992”, and deposited in accordance with regulation 5 of the Local Government Area Changes Regulations 1976;

“Merseyside” means the metropolitan county of Merseyside, and

“Wirral” means the metropolitan borough of Wirral in that county; and

“ward” means a ward of the borough or metropolitan borough from or to which an area is transferred.

Section 3 Transfers from Cheshire (Ellesmere Port) to Merseyside (Wirral)

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 Cheshire, from Ellesmere Port, and from the ward named in column 3 to—

(a) Merseyside;

(b) Wirral;

(c) the ward mentioned in column 4; and to

(d) the Wirral Borough petty sessional division and the Wirral coroner’s district.

TABLE

Section 4 Transfers from Merseyside (Wirral) to Cheshire (Ellesmere Port)

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 Merseyside, from Wirral,and from the ward named in column 3 to—

(a) Cheshire;

(b) Ellesmere Port;

(c) the ward and the electoral division mentioned in column 4; and to

(d) the Ellesmere Port and Neston petty sessional division and the Cheshire coroner’s district.

TABLE

Willaston and Thornton ward

South Wirral electoral division

B

E

3

1

Westminster ward

Grange and Rossmore electoral division

Willaston and Thornton ward

South Wirral electoral division

Section 5 Town and country planning

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

(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.