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"the Regulations" ("y Rheoliadau") means the Local Government Area Changes Regulations 1976[3] as amended; and

Changes in Community Areas
     3.  - (1) The existing community of Cynffig shall be abolished.

    (2) There shall be a new community called Cornelly being the area shown on the boundary map.

    (3) There shall be a new community called Pyle being the area shown on the boundary map.

    (4) Where a boundary shown on the boundary map runs along a road, railway line, footway, waterway or similar geographical feature it shall be treated as running along the centre of that feature.

    (5) The number of councillors for each of the new communities of Cornelly and Pyle shall be nine.

Elections for the new community councils of Cornelly and Pyle
     4.  - (1) Elections of councillors for the new community councils of Cornelly and Pyle shall be held simultaneously on the appointed day and the persons elected shall take office on 6th May 2002 and retire on the fourth day after the ordinary election of councillors in 2004.

    (2) The annual meeting of the new community councils of Cornelly and Pyle shall be convened by the officer appointed by the County Borough Council of Bridgend for that purpose.

    (3) Those councillors holding office for the community of Cynffig immediately before the appointed day shall retire on that day.

Expenses of the new community councils of Cornelly and Pyle
     5.  - (1) In this article - 

"the 1992 Act" ("Deddf 1992") means the Local Government Finance Act 1992[4];

"the 1995 Regulations" ("Rheoliadau 1995") means the Local Authorities (Precepts) (Wales) Regulations 1995[5];

"the new communities" ("y cymunedau newydd") means the new community councils of Cornelly and Pyle;

"the prospective billing authority" ("yr awdurdod bilio arfaethedig") means Bridgend County Borough Council;

"the relevant financial year" ("y flwyddyn ariannol berthnasol") means the financial year beginning on 1st April 2002.

    (2) Section 41 of the 1992 Act (issue of precepts by local precepting authorities) shall have effect - 

(a) in relation to the new communities, the prospective billing authority and the relevant financial year; and

(b) as respects the period beginning on 30th March 2002 and ending immediately before the day on which there is issued by the new communities precepts for the relevant financial year,

with the substitution for subsection (3) of the following subsection - 

    " (3) In making calculations in accordance with section 32 above (originally or by way of substitute) the billing authority shall take into account for the purposes of its estimate under section 32(2)(a) above an amount equal to that specified in article 5(6) of the Bridgend (Cynffig, Cornelly and Pyle Communities) (Electoral Changes) Order 2002.".

    (3) In relation to the new communities, the prospective billing authority and the relevant financial year - 

(a) section 32 of the 1992 Act (calculation of budget requirements by billing authorities) shall have effect with the omission of subsection (6);

(b) section 41(4) of the 1992 Act shall have effect with the substitution for the words "March in the financial year preceding that for which it is issued" of the words "October in the financial year for which it is issued"; and

(c) the reference in section 54(4) of the 1992 Act (power to designate authorities) to a precept anticipated by a billing authority in pursuance of regulations under section 41 of the 1992 Act shall be construed as a reference to the amount specified in paragraph (6) of this article.

    (4) In relation to the amount taken into account for the purposes of section 32(2)(a) of the 1992 Act by virtue of paragraph (2) above, Chapter III of Part I of the 1992 Act (setting of council tax) shall have effect as if - 

(a) the amount were an item mentioned in section 35(1) of the 1992 Act (special items) which related to the new communities; and

(b) the area of the prospective billing authority included the new communities.

    (5) The new communities shall make the calculations required by section 50 of the 1992 Act (calculation of budget requirement by local precepting authorities) for the relevant financial year so as to secure that the amount calculated as their budget requirement for that year does not exceed the amount specified in paragraph (6) below.

    (6) The amount specified in this paragraph in relation to each of the new communities is fifteen thousand pounds.

    (7) In relation to the new communities, the prospective billing authority and the relevant financial year, the 1995 Regulations shall have effect as if - 

(a) regulation 5 (information on schedules of payment); and

(b) in sub-paragraphs (1), (2) and (3) of paragraph 8 of Part II of the Schedule (rules for determination of schedules in instalments) in each case the second "or" and the words following to the end of each sub-paragraph,

were omitted.

Local Acts, orders and byelaws
     6. The existing community of Cynffig is specified in relation to regulation 41(4) (Local Acts, Orders and Byelaws) of the Regulations and the new communities of Cornelly and Pyle are hereby specified in relation to the said existing community.

Property, liabilities, contracts, etc, notices and proceedings
     7. All the property and liabilities of the Cynffig Community Council specified in Column (1) of the table in the Schedule to this Order shall on the appointed day vest in the council specified in Column (2).



Signed


E.Hart
The Minister for Finance, Local Goverment and Communities

28th March 2002

Table

(1) Matters Transferred	(2) Transferee Authority
One half of all monies held in any bank account.	Cornelly Community Council and Pyle Community Council
One half in value of all office equipment.	Cornelly Community Council and Pyle Community Council
Annual rental from Maudlam Allotments, Cornelly.	Cornelly Community Council
Annual delegation fees in respect of Meadow Street, North Cornelly, Cornelly playing field.	Cornelly Community Council
Annual delegation fees in respect of Groft Goch, Kenfig Hill, Pyle playing field.	Pyle Community Council
Existing badge of office.	Pyle Community Council
The badge of office of the former Kenfig Town Council.	Cornelly Community Council
Liability for maintenance and decoration of the Public Hall, Heol Las, Cornelly.	Cornelly Community Council
Liability for insurance cover for the Public Hall, Heol Las (Cornelly), and Badge of Office, the war memorial, Moriah Place, Kenfig Hill (Pyle), the following bus shelters: Pyle Road (in the vicinity of the Old Police Station) Pyle, Ffald Road, Pyle (in the vicinity of the entrance to the Co-operative Stores), Marlas Road, Pyle, Pyle Road, Pyle (in the vicinity of the vicinity of the garage), Pyle Road, Pyle (in the vicinity of Margaret's Wool Shop), Cwrt Anghorfa, Pyle Road, Pyle, Moriah Place, Kenfig Hill, St. Theodore's Church Kenfig Hill , Pisgah Chapel, Kenfig Hill, Hawthorne Drive, South Cornelly, the Golf Club, Waun y Mer, Kenfig, two bus stops at Maudlam Church, Maudlam, Heol y Parc, North Cornelly, two bus stops at Ffordd yr Eglwys, North Cornelly, two bus stops at Broadlands, North Cornelly, Heol Tydraw, Pyle, Cornelly Cross, Ael y Bryn, North Cornelly, Prince of Wales, Kenfig, Ton Kenfig, Heol Henfoes, Brynamlwg, North Cornelly. Afon y Felin, North Cornelly.	Cornelly Community Council and Pyle Community Council provided that where such liability is in respect of a building or structure in Column (1) each council shall assume liability for such buildings or structures as are within their areas as shown on the boundary map.
Public liability, fidelity guarantee and personal accident cover.
Liability for maintenance of public rights of way as contained in the definitive map prepared by the former Mid Glamorgan County Council (made under the provisions of Part IV of the National Parks and Access to the Countryside Act 1949) and in accordance with an agency agreement entered into in 1996 between the Cynffig Community Council and the former Mid Glamorgan Council for the maintenance of those rights of way, the following wayside seats: three seats at Marlas Road, Pyle, one seat at Pandy Crescent, Pyle, one at Pyle Road, Pyle, one seat at Ffald Road, Pyle, four seats at School Road, Kenfig Hill, one seat at Penrhyn Gates, Kenfig Hill, one seat at New Road (in the vicinity of the grass verge), Kenfig Hill, two seats at Waunbant Road, Kenfig Hill, one seat at Collwyn, Pyle, two seats at Broadlands, North Cornelly, one seat at Heol Tydraw, one seat at Cornelly Cross, one seat at Ton Kenfig, two seats in the vicinity of the Angel Inn, Maudlam and the following bus shelters (and the cleaning thereof) : Pyle Road (in the vicinity of the Old Police Station), Ffald Road, Pyle (in the vicinity of the entrance to the Co-operative Stores), Marlas Road, Pyle, Pyle Road, Pyle (in the vicinity of the vicinity of the garage), Pyle Road, Pyle (in the vicinity of Margaret's Wool Shop), Cwrt Anghorfa, Pyle Road, Pyle, Ffald Road, Pyle, Moriah Place, Kenfig Hill, Pisgah Chapel, Kenfig Hill, Hawthorne Drive, South Cornelly, the Golf Club, Waun y Mer, Kenfig, two bus stops at Maudlam Church, Maudlam, Heol y Parc, North Cornelly, two bus stops at Ffordd yr Eglwys, North Cornelly, two bus stops at Broadlands, North Cornelly, Heol Tydraw, Pyle, Cornelly Cross, Ael y Bryn, North Cornelly, Prince of Wales, Kenfig, Ton Kenfig, Heol Henfoes, Brynamlwg, North Cornelly, Afon y Felin, North Cornelly.	Cornelly Community Council and Pyle Community Council provided that where such liability is in respect of a building or structure in Column (1) each council shall assume liability for such buildings or structures as are within their areas as shown on the boundary map.
Liability for salaries for payment of the clerk and playing field secretaries.	Cornelly Community Council and Pyle Community Council

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[2] See the National Assembly for Wales (Transfer of Functions) Order 1999 (S.I. 1999/672).back

[3] S.I. 1976/246 as amended by the Local Government Area Changes (Amendment) Regulations 1978 (S.I. 1978/247).back

[4] 1992 c.14.back

[5] S.I. 1995/2562.back

  Prepared 14 June 2002