Welsh Statutory Instrument 2003 No. 3134 (W.300)

The Denbighshire (Rhuddlan, Rhyl, Dyserth and Prestatyn) Order 2003

(The document as of February, 2008)

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STATUTORY INSTRUMENTS

2003 No. 3134 (W.300)

LOCAL GOVERNMENT, WALES

The Denbighshire (Rhuddlan, Rhyl, Dyserth and Prestatyn) Order 2003

	Made	28th November 2003
	Coming into force in accordance with Article 1(2)

The Local Government Boundary Commission for Wales having submitted to the National Assembly for Wales in accordance with sections 54(1) and 58(1) of the Local Government Act 1972[1] a report dated April 2002 on a review carried out by Denbighshire County Council of the boundaries between the communities of Dyserth, Prestatyn, Rhuddlan and Rhyl in the County of Denbighshire together with the proposals they have formulated thereon;

    and the National Assembly for Wales having decided to give effect to these proposals;

    and more than six weeks having elapsed since those proposals were made;

    the National Assembly for Wales, in exercise of the powers given to the Secretary of State by section 58(2) of the Local Government Act 1972, and which are now vested in the National Assembly for Wales, so far as exercisable in Wales[2] makes the following Order:

Name and commencement
    1. - (1) This Order is called the Denbighshire (Rhuddlan, Rhyl, Dyserth and Prestatyn) Order 2003.

    (2) This Order comes into force on 1 April 2004, which is the appointed day for the purposes of the Regulations, except that for the purposes set out in Regulation 4(1) of the Regulations this Order comes into force on 1 December 2003.

Interpretation
    2.In this Order  - 

"boundary map A" ("map ffiniau A") means the map prepared by the National Assembly for Wales and marked "Map A of the Denbighshire (Rhuddlan, Rhyl, Dyserth and Prestatyn) Order 2003" and deposited in accordance with Regulation 5 of the Regulations;

"boundary map B" ("map ffiniau B") means the map prepared by the National Assembly for Wales and marked "Map B of the Denbighshire (Rhuddlan, Rhyl, Dyserth and Prestatyn) Order 2003" and deposited in accordance with Regulation 5 of the Regulations;

"Denbighshire" ("Sir Dinbych") means the County of Denbighshire; and

"the Regulations" ("y Rheoliadau") means the Local Government Area Changes Regulations 1976[3].

Changes in Community Areas
    3. - (1) Those parts of the community of Rhuddlan in Denbighshire and shown hatched in black on boundary maps A and B are separated from that community and form part of the community of Rhyl.

    (2) That part of the community of Dyserth in Denbighshire and shown cross hatched in black on boundary map B is separated from that community and forms part of the community of Prestatyn.

    (3) That part of the community of Rhuddlan in Denbighshire and shown shaded in black on boundary map B is separated from that community and forms part of the community of Prestatyn.

Changes to Wards
    4. - (1) The South ward of the community of Rhyl is expanded to include the area shown hatched in black on boundary map A.

    (2) The South East ward of the community of Rhyl is expanded to include the area shown hatched in black on boundary map B.

    (3) The South West ward of the community of Prestatyn is expanded to include the area shown cross-hatched in black and the area shown shaded in black on map B.



Signed on behalf of the National Assembly for Wales


Sue Essex
Minister for Finance, Local Government and Public Services

28th November 2003

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EXPLANATORY NOTE

(This note is not part of the Order)

This Order, made in accordance with section 58(2) of the Local Government Act 1972 gives effect to proposals by the Local Government Boundary Commission for Wales. The effect of those proposals is that:

(i) areas of the community of Rhuddlan (shown hatched in black on boundary maps A and B referred to in Article 2 of the Order) will become part of the community of Rhyl;

(ii) an area of the community of Dyserth in the vicinity of the properties known as "Ffordd Pantycelyn", "Pydew Farm", "Pydew Bungalow", "Little Pydew Farm", "Plas Newydd Farm", "Bungalow" and "52 Ffordd Ffynnon" (shown cross hatched in black on boundary map B referred to in Article 2 of the Order) will become part of the community of Prestatyn; and

(iii) an area of the community of Rhuddlan in the vicinity of the property known as "Four Winds Farm" (shown shaded black on boundary map B referred to in Article 2 of the Order) will become part of the community of Prestatyn.

Prints of the boundary map are deposited and may be inspected during normal office hours at the offices of Denbighshire County Council at Council Offices, Ruthin and at the offices of the National Assembly for Wales at Cathays Park, Cardiff (Local Government Modernisation Division).

Article 4 of this Order makes provision so that the South and the South East wards of the community of Rhyl, and the South West ward of the community of Prestatyn, which are referred to in the County of Denbighshire (Electoral Arrangements) Order 1998 ("the 1998 Order"), are extended so that their boundaries correspond with the community boundaries as altered by this Order.

The Local Government Area Changes Regulations 1976 (as amended) ("the 1976 Regulations") referred to in Article 2 of this Order contain incidental, consequential, transitional and supplementary provisions about the effect and implementation of orders such as this.

By virtue of Regulation 40 of the 1976 Regulations, references in the 1998 Order to the communities of Rhuddlan and Dyserth are to be construed as a reference to those communities as altered by this Order.

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Notes:

[1]1972 (c.70).back

[2] See National Assembly for Wales (Transfer of Functions) Order 1999 (S.I. 1999/672).back

[3]S.I. 1976/246 as amended by various statutory instruments which amendments are not relevant to this statutory instrument.back

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