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Bournemouth Borough Council Bill [Lords]

We have had Bills from councils in other areas across the country, which are already in place as Acts and have been for a number of years—we are in one such area now: London has the exact legislation that we are seeking in Bournemouth—and they are also subject to the 1982 Act, to which my hon. Friend the Member for Bournemouth, West (Sir John Butterfill) referred. I am not aware—perhaps those on the Front Bench can illuminate this point for me—of any requirement to change legislation in any of those places, whether it be London, Liverpool, Maidstone, Leicester, Medway or Newcastle. All those places have had their own borough council Bills, which is what we are seeking today. All have been able to work with the same legislation, despite the 1982 Act.