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Section 17A: Alternative styles: supplementary

Local Government Act 1972 · 1972 c. 70View on legislation.gov.uk

Part I: Local Government Areas and Authorities in England

This section applies for the purposes of sections 9 to 16A.

"Alternative style" means one of the following styles—

"community";
"neighbourhood";
"village".

References to a parish having an alternative style, or a particular alternative style, are references to the parish having that style by virtue of—

a relevant order, or
a resolution under section 12A or 12B.

The provisions of a relevant order which provide for a parish to have, or to cease to have, an alternative style are subject to any resolution under section 12A or 12B relating to that parish.

A resolution under section 12A or 12B relating to a parish is subject to any provisions of a relevant order which provide for a parish to have, or to cease to have, an alternative style.

A parish shall cease to have an alternative style if the parish begins to have the status of a town by virtue of section 245(6).

In this section "relevant order" means an order under—

section 11 of this Act, or
section 86 of the Local Government and Public Involvement in Health Act 2007.

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