The Hereford and Worcester and Warwickshire (County Boundaries) Order 1993

• Citation: S.I. 1993/272
• Sections: 5

Section 1 Citation and commencement

(1) This Order may be cited as the Hereford and Worcester and Warwickshire (County Boundaries) Order 1993.

(2) This Order shall come into force on 1st December 1993 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 1994.

Section 2 Interpretation

In this Order—

“district” includes a borough;

“electoral division” means an electoral division of the county to which an area is transferred by this order;

“Hereford and Worcester” means the county of Hereford and Worcester, and any reference to Bromsgrove, to Redditch, or to Wychavon is a reference to the district of that name in that county;

“map” means one of the 3 maps prepared by the Department of the Environment, marked

“Maps of the Hereford and Worcester and Warwickshire (County Boundaries) Order 1993”, and deposited in accordance with regulation 5 of the Local Government Area Changes Regulations 1976;

“ward” means a ward of the district to which an area is transferred by this order; and

“Warwickshire” means the county of Warwickshire, and any reference to Stratford-on-Avon is a reference to the Warwickshire district of that name.

Section 3 Transfers from Hereford and Worcester to Warwickshire

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 Hereford and Worcester, and from the district and the parish named in column 3 to—

(a) Warwickshire;

(b) Stratford-on-Avon;

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

(d) the South Warwickshire petty sessional division and the Warwickshire coroner’s district.

TABLE

Bromsgrove

Parish of Beoley

Parish of Tanworth-in-Arden

Tanworth ward

Henley-in-Arden electoral division

Wychavon

Parish of Pebworth

Parish of Long Marston

Welford ward

Bidford-on-Avon electoral division

Section 4 Transfers from Warwickshire to Hereford and Worcester

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 Warwickshire, from Stratford-on-Avon, and from the parish named in column 3 to—

(a) Hereford and Worcester;

(b) the district, parish (if any), ward and electoral division mentioned in column 4; and to

(c) the Bromsgrove and Redditch petty sessional division and the North Eastern Hereford and Worcester coroner’s district.

TABLE

A1 & A2

Bromsgrove

Parish of Beoley

Alvechurch ward

Alvechurch electoral division

Redditch

Greenlands ward

Matchborough 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(1) 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.