Statutory Instruments
1996 No. 662

CORONERS
The Coroners' Districts (Designation of Relevant Councils) (Wales) Order 1996

Made
7th March 1996

Coming into force
1st April 1996

The Secretary of State in exercise of the power conferred on him by section 1(1)(bb) of the Coroners Act 1988(1), hereby makes the following Order:

1.  This Order may be cited as the Coroners' Districts (Designation of Relevant Councils) (Wales) Order 1996 and shall come into force on 1st April 1996.

2.  For each coroner’s district listed in column 1 of the Schedule to this Order, being a coroner’s district created by the Coroners' Districts (Wales) Order 1996(2) lying partly in each of two or more Welsh counties or county boroughs, the council specified opposite thereto in column 2 of that Schedule is hereby designated as the relevant council for the purposes of the Coroners Act 1988.

Tom Sackville
Parliamentary Under Secretary of State
Home Office
7th March 1996

Article 2

SCHEDULERELEVANT COUNCILS FOR THE PURPOSES OF THE CORONERS ACT 1988

Column 1
Column 2

Coroner’s district
Relevant council

Bridgend and Glamorgan Valleys/ Pen-y-bont a Chymoedd Morgannwg
Rhondda,, Cynon,, Taff County Borough Council

Cardiff and The Vale of Glamorgan/ Caerdydd a Bro Morgannwg
The Vale of Glamorgan County Borough Council

Central North Wales/Canol Gogledd Cymru
Denbighshire County Council

Gwent
Newport County Borough Council

North East Wales/Gogledd Dwyrain Cymru
Wrexham County Borough Council

North West Wales/Gogledd Gorllewin Cymru
Caernarfonshire and Merionethshire County Council

Explanatory Note

(This note is not part of the Order)
This Order designates relevant councils for the coroners' districts in Wales listed in column 1 of the Schedule to this Order. Such designation is necessary where a coroner’s district in Wales lies partly in each of two or more Welsh counties or county boroughs. The relevant council is responsible for the appointment of coroners and other functions under the Coroners Act 1988.


(1)
1988 c. 13; section 1(1)(bb) was inserted by paragraph 82(2) of Schedule 16 to the Local Government (Wales) Act 1994 (c. 19) and that paragraph has been brought into force by S.I. 1995/852, Schedule 5.

(2)
S.I. 1996/661.