Commentary on Sections Implementation of changes Section 11: Implementation orders: provision that may be included
59.This section provides for the matters that may be included in an order when the Secretary of State implements a proposal or a recommendation under section 7 or 10, (i.e. a proposal or recommendation for structural or boundary change).
60.Subsections (3) and (4) set out these matters which include, for example, the constitution of a new local government area and the establishment of an authority as a county council, district council or London borough council for a local government area. The Secretary of State may also make provision in relation to electoral matters as defined in section 12.
61.Subsection (5) provides that the “establishment” of a county council or a district council includes increasing the remit of an existing authority by an existing district council becoming the county council for an area or vice versa.
62.Subsections (6) and (7) enable the Secretary of State to implement a proposal with such modifications as to provide a single tier of local government for an area which includes all or part of an area in the proposal but which is not an area which itself could have been specified. This gives the Secretary of State for example the ability to modify a proposal for a single tier of local government by changing the area so as to take account of recommendations which might be made for boundary change by the Boundary Committee for the same area.