Commentary on Sections Part 2: Local government reviews Section 17: Implementation of recommendations
74.Section 17 of the Act allows the Secretary of State by order under subsection (2) to give effect to recommendations of the Boundary Committee with or without modifications. Such an order is subject to the affirmative resolution procedure under section 29. The section sets out the procedure for implementing the recommendations and applies with modifications parts of section 17 of the 1992 Act for this purpose. The relevant subsections of that section set out the provisions that may be included in an order. These include provision as to:
	the area of any authority and the name of such area;
	the name of any authority;
	the establishment of any new authority for a county or district or winding up and dissolution of an existing authority;
	the constitution, election and membership of public bodies in the areas affected by the order; and
	the abolition or establishment, or the restriction or extension of the jurisdiction, of any public body in or over any part of any area affected by the order.
75.Section 17(6) of the 1992 Act requires the Secretary of State, when implementing the Boundary Committee’s recommendations, to do so in such a way as to ensure that neither a county in which there are no district councils, nor a district in any other county, is divided between two or more police areas.
76.There is also a power under subsection (5) of section 17 of this Act to make an order correcting a mistake in the preparation of the original order where it may not be possible to give the intended effect to a recommendation by a further order under subsection (2). A correction order is subject to the affirmative resolution procedure.