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The original sets of Charter Trustees were set up in 1974 , under section 246 of the Local Government Act 1972 ; in the 1990s several more such bodies were set up in another local government reorganisation. Section 245(4) of the Local Government Act 1972 allowed the 'shadow' district councils to make a petition to The Queen for borough status, prior to their coming into effect on April 1 , 1974 . In this case, if "it is signified on behalf of Her Majesty before that date that She proposes to accede" to the request then, the style of Borough could be used immediately from April 1, 1974, despite the fact that the Charter would only be presented later. For the new districts which made no such petition (or where it was refused), for each former Municipal Borough in the district, a Body Corporate styled the Charter Trustees of the town or city, were established, under section 246(4) of the Act. Originally, under section 246(7), when the District in which a charter trusteed town was in gained the status of a Borough , the charter trustees would be immediately dissolved. Some new district councils petitioned for borough status soon after April 1, 1974, quickly dissolving the Charter Trustees. This was changed by the Charter Trustees Act 1985, which provided that charter trustees would only cease to exist when a parish council was formed for the area of the former borough. Medway 's decision not to appoint charter trustees for Rochester , nor to apply for Rochester's City Status to be transferred to Medway, led to Rochester losing its City Status . When boroughs such as Beverley were abolished in the 1990s , rather than give Charter Trustees authority over the entire area of the former borough, they were instead limited to that part of the borough which was unparished - the area identifiable as the town. LIST EXTERNAL LINK SOURCES
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