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21 Electoral Commission exercise of functions | |
In carrying out their functions under this Part the Electoral Commission must | |
have regard (in particular) to— | |
(a) the need to reflect the identities and interests of local communities; | |
(b) the need to secure that the number of electors for an electoral area for | 5 |
an assembly is as near as is reasonably practicable to the number of | |
electors for the other electoral areas (taking account, where | |
appropriate, of special geographical considerations); | |
(c) guidance given by the Secretary of State. | |
22 Payments to Electoral Commission | 10 |
(1) The Secretary of State may pay to the Electoral Commission such amount as he decides | |
is the amount required by them to carry out their functions under this Part. | |
(2) A payment under subsection (1) must be treated as income received by the | |
Commission for the purposes of paragraph 14(1) of Schedule 1 to the Political | |
Parties, Elections and Referendums Act 2000 (c. 41). | 15 |
Part 4 | |
Funding for regional chambers | |
23 Funding for regional chambers | |
(1) The Secretary of State may make a grant to any person in respect of expenditure | |
incurred in connection with the activities of a regional chamber. | 20 |
(2) The grant may be made on such terms as the Secretary of State thinks | |
appropriate. | |
(3) The terms may include provision as to— | |
(a) the circumstances in which the grant is to be repaid to the Secretary of | |
State, and | 25 |
(b) the manner in which that is to be done. | |
(4) A regional chamber is a body designated as such for the regional development | |
agency of a region under section 8 of the Regional Development Agencies Act | |
1998 (c. 45). | |
Part 5 | 30 |
General | |
24 Enactment establishing assemblies immaterial | |
For the purposes of this Act it is immaterial whether any enactment confers | |
power on the Secretary of State to establish elected assemblies for regions. | |
25 Commencement | 35 |
(1) The preceding provisions of this Act come into force at the end of the period of | |
two months beginning with the day on which it is passed. | |
(2) Subsection (1) does not apply to— | |
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(b) Part 4. | |
26 Regions | |
In this Act a region is a region (except London) specified in Schedule 1 to the | |
Regional Development Agencies Act 1998 (c. 45). | 5 |
27 Orders and regulations | |
(1) A power in this Act to make an order or regulations must be exercised by | |
statutory instrument. | |
(2) But a statutory instrument must not be made unless a draft of the order or | |
regulations (as the case may be) has been laid before Parliament and approved | 10 |
by a resolution of each House. | |
(3) An order or regulations— | |
(a) may contain such consequential, incidental, supplementary or | |
transitional provision or savings (including provision amending, | |
repealing or revoking enactments) as the person making the order or | 15 |
regulations thinks appropriate; | |
(b) may make different provision for different purposes. | |
(4) If a draft of an instrument to which subsection (5) applies would apart from | |
this section be treated for the purposes of the Standing Orders of either House | |
of Parliament as a hybrid instrument it must proceed in that House as if it were | 20 |
not such an instrument. | |
(5) This subsection applies to an instrument made under— | |
(a) Part 1 of this Act; | |
(b) section 15 of this Act; | |
(c) section 129(1) of the Political Parties, Elections and Referendums Act | 25 |
2000 (c. 41) to the extent that it is made for the purpose of a referendum | |
held in pursuance of an order under section 1 of this Act. | |
28 Expenditure | |
(1) The following amounts are to be paid out of money provided by Parliament— | |
(a) any expenditure of a Minister of the Crown in connection with a referendum | 30 |
held in pursuance of an order under section 1; | |
(b) any expenditure of the Secretary of State under sections 17, 22 and 23; | |
(c) any expenditure of the Secretary of State in preparation for elected regional | |
assemblies; | |
(d) any expenditure of the Secretary of State in connection with the transfer of any | 35 |
function to such an assembly; | |
(e) any increase attributable to this Act in the sums so payable under any other | |
enactment. | |
(2) There are to be charged on and paid out of the Consolidated Fund any sums required to | |
meet the expenditure of the Electoral Commission under section 9. | 40 |
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Schedule | |
Section 15 | |
Amendments | |
Fire Services Act 1947 (10 & 11 Geo 6 c. 41) | |
1 (1) The Fire Services Act 1947 is amended as follows. | |
(2) In section 6(2A) (Secretary of State to consider representations on certain | 5 |
combination schemes, but not required to cause public local inquiry), in | |
paragraph (a) after “of that Part)” there is inserted “or an order under section | |
15 of the Regional Assemblies (Preparations) Act 2003 containing such | |
provision”. | |
(3) In section 10 (power to make schemes in advance of alteration of local | 10 |
government areas) after “1992” there is inserted “or section 15 of the | |
Regional Assemblies (Preparations) Act 2003”. | |
Coroners Act 1988 (c. 13) | |
2 In section 1(1A)(e) of the Coroners Act 1988 (appointment of coroners) at the | |
end there is added “or section 15 of the Regional Assemblies (Preparations) | 15 |
Act 2003”. | |
Local Government Finance Act 1988 (c. 41) | |
3 (1) The Local Government Finance Act 1988 is amended as follows. | |
(2) In section 74(2A) (councils subject to levy) at the end there is added “or | |
section 15 of the Regional Assemblies (Preparations) Act 2003”. | 20 |
(3) In section 89(2A) (establishment of collection fund by certain councils) after | |
“1992” there is inserted “or section 15 of the Regional Assemblies | |
(Preparations) Act 2003”. | |
(4) In section 91 (general funds)— | |
(a) in subsection (1)(aa) after “1992” there is inserted “or section 15 of the | 25 |
Regional Assemblies (Preparations) Act 2003”; | |
(b) in subsection (3A) after “1992” there is inserted “or section 15 of the | |
Regional Assemblies (Preparations) Act 2003”. | |
Local Government and Housing Act 1989 (c. 42) | |
4 In the Local Government and Housing Act 1989 in section 39(1) (authorities | 30 |
subject to Part 4) in paragraph (ib) after “1992” there is inserted “or section | |
15 of the Regional Assemblies (Preparations) Act 2003”. | |
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