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Do authorities merging or undergoing boundary changes during 2009 need to comply?

April 26, 2017Authorities Boundary changes comply merging undergoing

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Do authorities merging or undergoing boundary changes during 2009 need to comply?

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We have received numerous enquiries from authorities that are merging/undergoing boundary changes on 1 April 2009 regarding whether they need to adopt the new scheme. We would expect the existing bodies to comply with legal requirements by adopting and operating in accordance with the approved model publication scheme from 1 January 2009. The new model scheme covers all public authorities therefore any new bodies formed from mergers post January 2009 will adopt the same scheme they had previously adopted as separate bodies. However, the new authority will need to reconcile the directories of information in order to operate the scheme.