Balbriggan Town Boundary Alteration (Supplementary) Order 2009
Statutory Instruments
Source: Statutory Instruments

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paragraphs: This Order may be cited as the Balbriggan Town Boundary Alteration (Supplementary) Order 2009.
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paragraphs: (1) In this Order—
(2) In this Order a reference to the relevant areas shall, where appropriate, include a reference to any portion of such areas.
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paragraphs: This Order shall come into operation on 1 February 2009.
4. (1) (a) Any thing done, or treated by virtue of any enactment as having been done, by, to, or in relation to the County Council (including, in particular, every resolution passed, order made, and notice given or served) before the commencement of this Order, in the exercise or performance of or by the County Council of any of its powers, functions or duties, shall, insofar as it relates to the relevant areas, and relates to the powers, functions or duties which stand conferred on the Town Council, and is not inconsistent with this Order, be treated as having been done by, to, or in relation to the Town Council.
(b) Without prejudice to the generality of sub-paragraph (a) of this paragraph, “thing” as therein used shall include all matters encompassed by section 34(6) of the Local Government Act 1991 .
(2) Any outstanding rates, charges or other debts or liabilities due to the County Council before the commencement of this Order and unpaid and relating wholly or in part to the relevant areas shall, notwithstanding the boundary alteration, remain due and payable to the County Council and may be recovered accordingly.
(3) The boundary alteration shall not affect the continuance of legal proceedings commenced by or against the County Council before the commencement of this Order in relation to any right, duty, liability or other matter connected with, or related to, the relevant areas.
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paragraphs: The County Council and the Town Council may by agreement make any adjustment necessary in consequence of the boundary alteration.
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paragraphs: Every person holding office on the commencement of this Order as a member of the Town Council shall be deemed to hold office for the Town as altered by the Primary Order.
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paragraphs: The alteration of the boundary of Balbriggan Town as effected for electoral purposes only by the Local Government (Boundaries) (Town Elections) Regulations 1994, ( S.I. No. 114 of 1994 ) shall cease to have effect on and from the commencement of this Order.
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paragraphs: (1) Where on the commencement of this Order a polling district is situated partly within and partly without the relevant areas, the County Council shall with respect to each part of such polling district situated without the relevant areas-
(a) join it or parts of it to any adjoining polling district or districts, or
(b) constitute it as a polling district and appoint a polling place for it.
(2) Any arrangement made pursuant to this Article shall have effect until (and only until) the first scheme under section 28 of the Electoral Act 1992 as amended by section 12 of the Electoral (Amendment) Act 2001 in relation to the county comes into operation after the commencement of this Order.
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paragraphs: (1) As soon as may be after the commencement of this Order, the County Council shall, if appropriate, adapt the register of electors so as to correspond with any arrangements made pursuant to Article 8 of this Order.
(2) In respect of a polling district or part of a polling district situated within the relevant areas, the County Council shall, as soon as may be after the commencement of this Order, enter the name of the electoral area of Balbriggan Town on any relevant title page of the register of electors.
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paragraphs: (1) As soon as may be after the commencement of this Order, the Chief Boundary Surveyor shall prepare four copies of the map attached to the Primary Order showing the relevant areas and the altered boundary of Balbriggan Town and shall seal each of the maps and shall deposit one of the maps in the principal offices of the said Surveyor, another in the offices of the Town Council, another in the offices of the County Council and another in the offices of the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government.
(2) The said maps, once deposited in accordance with paragraph (1) of this Article, shall be retained in the said offices and the maps, or true copies of them, shall be available for public inspection at the offices of the said Surveyor, Town Council and County Council during normal office hours and a copy of the map, or an extract from it, shall be made available to any person requesting same, for a charge not exceeding the reasonable cost of supplying such a copy.
(3) It shall be the duty of the said Surveyor and of the Town Council and of the County Council respectively, whenever required to do so by any Court of Justice, to prepare and produce to such Court a true copy of the map or any specified part of the map deposited under this Article and to verify such copy to such Court by the oath of an officer of the said Surveyor, Town Council or County Council (whose official position it shall not be necessary to prove) and upon any such copy being so produced and verified to such Court, such Court shall receive such copy in evidence and thereupon such copy shall be conclusive evidence of the relevant areas and of the altered boundary of Balbriggan Town.