Commentary on Sections Part 7: Mergers and Restructuring Of Principal Areas Chapter 2: Restructuring of Principal Areas Section 131 – Restructuring regulations
576.Section 131 provides that restructuring regulations will provide for the abolition of the principal council under consideration and its principal area (that is, a council in relation to which the five conditions in section 129 have been met, and the county or county borough for which it is the council) on a date specified in the regulations (“the transfer date”).
577.The regulations will specify the changes to local government structures which will lead to the replacement of the area of the principal council in question, which (as noted above in relation to section 129) must take the form of either or both of the following: