Maanenland Provinces Act
The Maanenland Provinces Act 1980 is an Lieutenancy Decreement ordered drawn up in 1979 and authorised by the soverign in May 1980. It came into force in 1981. The Act was superceded on the 6th of August 2006 by the Maanenland Provinces Act 2006.
Background
By 1810 the nation of Maanenland was fully formed as a series of regions and territories that had been annexed. By the early 1970s it was becoming apparent that this system was highly inefficient. Most regions formed blocs with their neighbours as they shared common interests and goals. Regions also failed to co-ordinate policy with their neighbours effectivly to stop duplication; an example of this is on infrastrucure programs such as roads. So the Democratic Socialist Alliance government of Lord Geoff Woodstock commissioned a report in 1975 called The Royal Report of the Local Government Survey Commitee without much of a fanfare in the media. This report hi-lighted the many failings of the present system and proposed an entirely new system for local government in Maanenland.
Changes Approved
- Starting from scratch with regional boundaries
- Cutting down number of regions from 30 to 14 "core regions"
- Abolition of the hundered subdivisons in most regions
- The creation of "new regions" formed from the remanants of the ancient counties
Changes Dissaproved
- The destruction of every region and rebuilding according to a new structure
- Removing the power of the county and city authorities in transport
- Changing the constitutional nature of the captial
- Adoption of a federal structure
Changes
Although technically every province was a new province , several regions assumed the legal entity of the former territories , these were:
- DYCAN VALLEY for DYCAN
- PLAINS COUNTY for HARPER COUNTY
- CHESTERFORD VALLEY for CHESTERFORD COUNTY
- TERNPOOL PROVINCE for LERENCIESTER
Other regions were ripped apart and formed the new provinces of:
- PORTLAND from hundereds of NORTHERN OAKVALESHIRE (WESTERN HUNDERED) , SCAMPTONSHIRE , CITY OF NEWPORT (COUNTY) , KENTON COUNTY , and LERENCIESTER (CAPEFORD HUNDERED and DENSLEY HUNDRERED )
- GREATER STRETFORD from hundereds of MOUNTHATTENSHIRE , CAISTERSHIRE , STANSTON
- HOLLINGS VALLEY from hundereds of PLAINSTON , CHATHAMSHIRE , CLIFFTON DUCHY
- WESTERN PEAK DISTRICTS from hunderds of HULME COUNTY , NORTHERN OAKVALESHIRE , ARLEN , WEST DENTONSHIRE , KENTON RURAL BOROUGH
Critisism
Many critics pointed out that the new regions destroyed the traditional boundaries that communities felt they belonged to. Towns and villages that were often closely linked were split apart , often entire districts were split into two.
