Citation 20 Royal assent 12 November 2009 | Territorial extent England and Wales | |
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Long title An Act to make provision for the purposes of promoting public involvement in relation to local authorities and other public authorities; to make provision about bodies representing the interests of tenants; to make provision about local freedoms and honorary titles; to make provision about the procedures of local authorities, their powers relating to insurance and the audit of entities connected with them; to establish the Local Government Boundary Commission for England and to make provision relating to local government boundary and electoral change; to make provision about local and regional development; to amend the law relating to construction contracts; and for connected purposes. | ||
The Local Democracy, Economic Development and Construction Act 2009 is an Act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom.
Contents
The legislation places a duty on local authorities to promote understanding of the functions and democratic arrangements of the authority among local people. It establishes the framework for the establishment and functioning of the local authority leaders' boards that have been set up in the eight English Regions outside London.
It allows the creation of appointed combined authorities covering multiple local authority areas, the first of which is the Greater Manchester Combined Authority.
Part 8 of the Act amends Part 2 of the Housing Grants, Construction and Regeneration Act 1996 in relation to “construction contracts”.
Provisions
Part 3 of the Act provides for the establishment of the Local Government Boundary Commission for England (LGBCE), and for the transfer to it of all the boundary-related functions of the Boundary Committee for England of the Electoral Commission. Part 3 also repeals the parts of the Political Parties, Elections and Referendums Act 2000 which could have transferred the functions of each of the UK boundary commissions to the Electoral Commission.
Section 59
The following orders have been made under section 59(1):