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(1) These Regulations may be cited as the War Pensions Committees (Amendment) Regulations 1995 and shall come into force on 1st January 1996.
(2) In these Regulations “the Principal Regulations” means the War Pensions Committees Regulations 1990.
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In paragraph (2) of regulation 1 of the Principal Regulations (citation, commencement and interpretation)—
(a) for the definition of “area” there shall be substituted the following definition—“
 “area” in relation to each Committee means the places specified in column 2 of Schedule 1 opposite the name of the Committee;”;
(b) after the definition of “Committee” there shall be inserted the following definition—“
 “local authority” means, in relation to a War Pensions Committee—
(a) in England, the council of a county, district or London borough, the Council of the Isles of Scilly, the Common Council of the City of London, or a shadow authority, within the meaning of the Local Government Changes for England Regulations 1994 but excludes a council listed in Schedule 1A (excepted authorities);
(b) in Scotland—
(i) in the period prior to 1st April 1996, a council in respect of which an ordinary election of councillors took place on 6th April 1995 or an islands council;
(ii) in any period from and including 1st April 1996 a council constituted under section 2 of the Local Government etc. (Scotland) Act 1994;
(c) in Wales, a new principal council within the meaning of section 21 of the Local Government Act 1972 as substituted by section 2 of the Local Government (Wales) Act 1994;”.
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For regulation 2 of the Principal Regulations (establishment of War Pensions Committees) there shall be substituted the following regulation—“
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(1) Each of the areas specified in column 2 of Schedule 1 to these Regulations shall have a War Pensions Committee named in accordance with the corresponding entry in column 1 of that Schedule.
(2) In the case of each of the War Pensions Committees established for North and West Wales and for South Wales there appears below its name in English in column 1 of Schedule 1 its name in Welsh and either its Welsh or English name may be used for any purpose.”.
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For sub-paragraph (d) of paragraph (3) of regulation 3 of the Principal Regulations (membership of Committee (except Northern Ireland War Pensions Committee)) there shall be substituted—“
(d) four members each of whom has been nominated by a local authority exercising functions in any part of the area for which the Committee is appointed.”.
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(1) For Schedule 1 to the Principal Regulations there shall be substituted the Schedule set out at Schedule 1 to these Regulations.
(2) After Schedule 1 to the Principal Regulations (as substituted by paragraph (1) of this regulation) there shall be inserted as Schedule 1A the Schedule set out at Schedule 2 to these Regulations.
Signed by authority of the Secretary of State for Social Security.
MacKay of Ardbrecknish
Minister of State,
Department of Social Security
4th December 1995
SCHEDULE 1
Regulation 5(1)
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SCHEDULE 1
Regulation 2


Name of War Pensions Committee Area for which War Pensions Committee Established
Central Scotland War Pensions Committee Angus, Argyll and Bute, Clackmannan, Dumbarton and Clydebank, the City of Dundee, East Dunbartonshire, the City of Glasgow, North Lanarkshire, Perthshire and Kinross and Stirling.
Central Southern England War Pensions Committee The counties of Berkshire, Hampshire, the Isle of Wight and Surrey.
Chilterns War Pensions Committee The counties of Bedfordshire, Buckinghamshire, Hertfordshire and Oxfordshire.
Cumbria and Lancaster War Pensions Committee The county of Cumbria and the City of Lancaster.
Derbyshire, Leicestershire and Staffordshire War Pensions Committee The counties of Derbyshire, Leicestershire and Staffordshire.
East Anglian War Pensions Committee The counties of Cambridgeshire, Norfolk and Suffolk.
Essex War Pensions Committee The county of Essex and the London boroughs of Barking, Havering and Redbridge.
Greater Manchester and Macclesfield War Pensions Committee The county of Greater Manchester, other than the metropolitan districts of Bolton and Wigan together with (in the county of Cheshire) the borough of Macclesfield.
Kent War Pensions Committee The county of Kent.
Lancashire War Pensions Committee The metropolitan districts of Bolton, Knowsley, Saint Helens, Sefton and Wigan and the county of Lancashire other than the City of Lancaster.
Lincolnshire and Nottinghamshire War Pensions Committee The counties of Lincolnshire and Nottinghamshire.
Liverpool, the Wirral and Cheshire War Pensions Committee The county of Cheshire other than the borough of Macclesfield, the City of Liverpool and the metropolitan borough of Wirral.
London North War Pensions Committee The London boroughs of Barnet, Brent, Camden, Ealing, Enfield, Hackney, Haringey, Harrow, Hillingdon, Islington, Tower Hamlets and Waltham Forest.
London South War Pensions Committee The London boroughs of Bexley, Bromley, Croydon, Greenwich, Hammersmith and Fulham, Hounslow, Lambeth, Lewisham, Merton, Richmond upon Thames, Southwark, Sutton and Wandsworth, the Royal Boroughs of Kensington and Chelsea and of Kingston upon Thames and the Cities of London and Westminster.
North and West Wales War Pensions CommitteePwyllgor Pensiynau Rhyfel Gogledd a Gorllewin Cymru The counties of Anglesey, Caernarfonshire and Merionethshire, Cardiganshire, Carmarthenshire, Denbighshire, Flintshire, Pembrokeshire and Powys and the county boroughs of Aberconwy and Colwyn and Wrexham.
North of Scotland War Pensions Committee The City of Aberdeen, Aberdeenshire, Highland, Moray, Orkney, Shetland and the Western Isles.
North Yorkshire and the Tees War Pensions Committee The county of North Yorkshire and the boroughs of Middlesborough, Hartlepool, Langbaurgh-on-Tees and Stockton-on-Tees.
Northern Ireland War Pensions Committee Northern Ireland.
Northumbria War Pensions Committee The counties of Durham, Northumberland and Tyne and Wear.
South East Scotland War Pensions Committee The Borders, the City of Edinburgh, Fife, Falkirk, East Lothian, Midlothian and West Lothian.
South Wales War Pensions CommitteePwyllgor Pensiynau Rhyfel De Cymru The counties of Cardiff, Monmouthshire, and Swansea and the county boroughs of Blaenau Gwent, Bridgend, Caerphilly, Merthyr Tydfil; Neath and Port Talbot; Newport; Rhondda, Cynon, Taff; Torfaen and the Vale of Glamorgan.
South West England War Pensions Committee The counties of Cornwall, Devon and Somerset and the Isles of Scilly.
South West Midlands War Pensions Committee The counties of Hereford and Worcester and Shropshire.
South West Scotland War Pensions Committee East Ayrshire, North Ayrshire, South Ayrshire, Dumfries and Galloway, Inverclyde, South Lanarkshire, Renfrewshire and East Renfrewshire.
South Yorkshire and the Humber War Pensions Committee The City of Kingston upon Hull, the districts of the East Riding of Yorkshire, North Lincolnshire and North East Lincolnshire, the metropolitan boroughs of Barnsley, Doncaster and Rotherham and the City of Sheffield.
Sussex War Pensions Committee The counties of East and West Sussex.
West Midlands, Warwickshire and Northamptonshire War Pensions Committee The counties of Warwickshire, Northamptonshire, the Cities of Birmingham and Wolverhampton and the district of Solihull.
West of England War Pensions Committee The districts of Bath and North East Somerset, the City of Bristol, South Gloucestershire and Woodspring and the counties of Dorset, Gloucestershire and Wiltshire.
West Yorkshire War Pensions Committee The Cities of Bradford, Leeds and Wakefield, the borough of Kirklees and the district of Calderdale.”
SCHEDULE 2
Regulation 5(2)
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SCHEDULE 1A
Regulation 2


 Avon County Council
 Bath City Council
 Beverley Borough Council
 Boothferry Borough Council
 Cleethorpes Borough Council
 Cleveland County Council
 East Yorkshire Borough Council
 Glanford Borough Council
 Great Grimsby Borough Council
 Holderness Borough Council
 Humberside County Council
 Kingswood Borough Council
 Northavon District Council
 Scunthorpe Borough Council
 Wandsdyke District Council
 York City Council
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