Commentary on Sections Boundary change Section 9: Boundary Committee’s review: consultation etc
51.This section sets out the procedure to be followed by the Boundary Committee when carrying out a review of a local government area.
52.Subsection (2) requires the Boundary Committee to consult the council of the local government area that is being reviewed and other local authorities, parish councils or other persons it believes to have an interest.
53.Subsection (3) provides that before the Boundary Committee makes a recommendation, it must publish a draft of the recommendation and take steps they consider sufficient to inform those persons that may have an interest of the recommendation of it, and of the length of time that they have to make representations on the recommendation to the Committee.
54.Subsection (4) requires the Boundary Committee to take into account any representations that it receives within the specified period. Where the Committee makes a recommendation to the Secretary of State it must inform all persons who made representations in relation to the recommendation. It must also inform them that if they wish to make representations to the Secretary of State about the recommendation they have four weeks from the date that the recommendation was sent by the Boundary Committee to the Secretary of State.