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1 New Zealand

In New Zealand a unitary authority is a territorial authority (district or city) which also performs the functions of a regional council. New Zealand has four unitary authorities: Gisborne District, Nelson City, Tasman District and Marlborough District.

2 United Kingdom

The term 'unitary authority' itself first surfaced in the Redcliffe-Maud Report, to describe the sort of authority the report recommended cover most of England. These sorts of authorities already existed and were called county boroughs; but the term was urban in character. The Report was rejected by the incoming government after the 1970 general election, and county boroughs were abolished in 1974. It was not until the 1990s that unitary authorities would be created in the UK.

2.1 Creation of unitary authorities

Unitary authorities can be created by statutory instruments, so do not require separate legislation, under the terms of the Local Government Act 1992 . Typically a district of an administrative county is designated as a new administrative county, but without a county councilIn the British Isles, a county council is a council that governs a county. The first county councils were introduced in the late 19th century in England and Wales, and this system was soon extended to Scotland and the island of Ireland. The areas they cov. The borders of the original county are adjusted to exclude the unitary authority area. In common usage unitary authority areas are not usually referred to as counties, although there are exceptions such as the HerefordshireHerefordshire is a county in the West Midlands region of England. It borders the counties of Shropshire in the north, Worcestershire in the east, Gloucestershire in the south east and the Welsh preserved county counties of Gwent in the south west and Powy and RutlandThis article is about the county in England. For other articles on subjects named Rutland, see Rutland (disambiguation). Rutland is traditionally England's smallest county and is bounded on the west and north by Leicestershire, northeast by Lincolnshire,, which are reinstatements of counties lost in the 1974 reorganisation; and the Isle of WightThe Isle of Wight is an island off the south coast of England opposite Southampton. Colloquially, it is known as 'The Island' by residents. Its population was 132,731 in the 2001 census (and 126,600 in 1991). The Island has a single MP (currently Andrew T, (the first Unitary Authority created after the 1992 Act, and arguably one of the simplest and least controversial to create) which was, and remains, a separate county, but now with only a single council.

In some cases, such as the boroughs of metropolitan countiesThe metropolitan counties of England are administative counties that cover large urban areas, each with several metropolitan districts. The counties no longer have county councils, as they were abolished in 1986 with most of their functions being devolved and BerkshireFor other places named Berkshire, see: Berkshire (disambiguation Berkshire (pronounced Barkshe(e)r sometimes abbreviated to Berks is a county in the south of England, to the west of London and also bordering on Oxfordshire, Buckinghamshire, Greater London a different process was followed, where the county council was abolished, and its functions merely transferred to the districts.

Listings of unitary authorities in England can be found by region, or in Subdivisions of England.

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