Citation and commencement

1. This Order may be cited as the Local Government Changes (Rent Act Registration Areas) Order 1996 and shall come into force on 1st April 1997.

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 Bedfordshire registration area comprising the counties(3) of Bedfordshire and Luton;

(b)the Buckinghamshire registration area comprising the counties(4) of Buckinghamshire and Milton Keynes;

(c)the Derbyshire registration area comprising the counties(5) of Derbyshire and Derby;

(d)the Dorset registration area comprising the counties(6)of-

(i)Bournemouth;

(ii)Dorset; and

(iii)Poole;

(e)the Durham registration area comprising the counties(7) of Darlington and Durham;

(f)the East Sussex registration area comprising the counties(8) of Brighton and Hove and East Sussex;

(g)the Hampshire registration area comprising the counties(9) of-

(i)Hampshire;

(ii)Portsmouth; and

(iii)Southampton;

(h)the Leicestershire registration area comprising the counties(10) of-

(i)Leicestershire;

(ii)Leicester; and

(iii)Rutland;

(i)the Staffordshire registration area comprising the counties(11) of Staffordshire and Stoke-on-Trent;

(j)the Wiltshire registration area comprising the counties(12) of Thamesdown and Wiltshire.

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 reorganisation of the counties named in that article under the provisions of the Local Government Act 1992.