Citation and commencement

1. This Order may be cited as the Local Government Changes (Rent Act Registration Areas) Order 1995 and shall come into force on 1st April 1996.

Amendment of registration areas

2. For the purposes of Part IV of the Rent Act 1977 (registration of rents under regulated tenancies)(2) there shall be-

(a)the Avon registration area comprising the counties(3) of-

(i)Bath and North East Somerset;

(ii)the City of Bristol;

(iii)North West Somerset; and

(iv)South Gloucestershire;

(b)the Cleveland registration area comprising the counties(4) of-

(i)Hartlepool;

(ii)Middlesbrough;

(iii)Redcar and Cleveland; and

(iv)Stockton-on-Tees;

(c)the Humberside registration area comprising the counties(5) of-

(i)the City of Kingston upon Hull;

(ii)the East Riding of Yorkshire;

(iii)North East Lincolnshire; and

(iv)North Lincolnshire; and

(d)the North Yorkshire registration area comprising the counties(6) of North Yorkshire and York.

Explanatory Note

(This note is not part of the Order)

Registration areas are the organisational units for the rent officer service and rent assessment committees. Section 62 of the Rent Act 1977 provides that registration areas for the purposes of Part IV (Registration of Rent Under Regulated Tenancies) of that Act outside London are counties. Article 2 of this Order redefines the registration areas named in that article, as a consequence of the abolition of the counties in Avon, Cleveland, Humberside and the reorganisation of North Yorkshire under the provisions of the Local Government Act 1992, and includes the county of York within the registration area of North Yorkshire.