 It was replaced by the Boundary Committee for England in 2002, which finished this review cycle in 2004.Local government was at the time organised under the Local Government Act 1972, which had been passed during Edward Heath's Conservative administration.Before this, local government in England had been a mixed system, with large urban areas being covered by unitary authorities called county boroughs, and the rest of the country having administrative county councils and many smaller district councils, with different competences.