Initially the ELWa brand was used by both the NCETW and the Higher Education Funding Council for Wales ( HEFCW ), and both organisations shared a common executive with some joint staff co-located in Llanishen ( NCETW also maintained the former TEC offices in Bedwas, Swansea, Newtown and St Asaph ).

ELWa-Education and Learning Wales was the brand used by the National Council for Education and Training for Wales ( NCETW ), an Assembly Sponsored Public Body ( ASPB ) or quango established by the Learning and Skills Act 2000.

Whereas D & D merged armor with defense, BRP treated them as separate functions: the act of parrying was a defensive skill that reduced an opponent's chance to successfully land an attack, and the purpose of armor was to absorb damage.

With the decreasing number of such matters to be addressed as the trust territories attained independence and the decolonization movement progressed, the functions of the Special Political Committee were merged into the Fourth Committee during the 1990s.

Some of Alaska's boroughs have merged geographical boundaries and administrative functions with their principal ( and sometimes only ) cities ; these are known as unified city-boroughs and result in some of Alaska's cities ranking among the geographically largest " cities " in the world.

This is the case in the City and County of San Francisco, CA, and in the City and County of Philadelphia, PA. A similar arrangement is found in the " Metropolitan Government of Nashville and Davidson County " where the metropolis of Nashville has merged into the county of Davidson ( but, other than Nashville, a few municipalities-such as Belle Meade-still exist with some administrative functions ).

In the past, such functions were provided by separate devices, but in recent years technological convergence has enabled multiple functions to merged into a single device.

Another important concept that has been merged into telephony is computer telephony integration, which enables computers to know about and control phone functions such as making and receiving voice, fax, and data calls with telephone directory services and caller identification.

The socio-economic functions of the Agency were merged with the Regional Development Agencies.

During a 1992 reorganization, the Air Force disestablished Eglin's parent major command, Air Force Systems Command ( AFSC ) and merged its functions with the former Air Force Logistics Command ( AFLC ).

In Scotland, its functions were merged with those of the Countryside Commission for Scotland to form Scottish Natural Heritage, and similarly in Wales there was a merger to form the Countryside Council for Wales.

These departments merged in 1964 ; the defence functions of the Ministry of Aviation Supply merged into the Ministry of Defence in 1971.

In 1995 the department merged with the Department of Employment to become the Department for Education and Employment ( DfEE ) and in 2001 the employment functions were transferred to a newly created Department for Work and Pensions, with the DfEE becoming the Department for Education and Skills ( DfES ).

In 1996 the funding of the network was removed from the operational functions with the creation of Transfund New Zealand, which then merged with the Land Transport Safety Authority to create Land Transport New Zealand.

The group merged its insurance and financial services functions with the Lutheran Brotherhood to form Thrivent Financial for Lutherans.

* 2001-BNU and Caixa Geral de Depósitos merged through incorporation of BNU into Caixa Geral de Depósitos ; Banque Franco-Portugaise d ’ Outre-Mer became a branch of Caixa Geral ; on July 1, 2000, the Macau branch of Banco Nacional Ultramarino became a bank incorporated in Macau SAR under the name Banco Nacional Ultramarino S. A., but remained wholly owned subsidiary of Caixa Geral de Depósitos, retaining until 2010 its functions as a note issuer and Agent of the Treasury.

The Salt Lake Mission Home was shut down permanently as well, and all remaining functions of that facility were merged into the MTC, including administrative functions that were not otherwise handled directly by LDS Church headquarters.

Later, security functions were merged and, in 1948, Foreign Correlations ( an intelligence service ) was incorporated into the office, bringing in that aspect of security.

In 1950 the duties and functions of the King of India and Governor-General of India were merged in to a President of India.

Some office functions have been merged, but most of the stations ' operations remain separate.

* Mass Effect 2: In 2184, President Christopher Huerta of the United North American States ( merged from the United States, Canada, and Mexico ) suffers a severe stroke that renders him legally dead for 90 minutes, until his mental functions are transferred to a computer system.

Gradually taking on the functions of a trade union over time, in 1969 the B of LF & E merged with three other railway labor organizations to form the United Transportation Union.

The functions of both bodies were merged into the Board by the 1961 Single Convention on Narcotic Drugs.

In other places the different tiers are merged, for example as a consolidated city – county in which city and county functions are managed by a single municipal government, or in the case of towns in New England, which in some states have completely replaced the county as the unit of local government.

* 1961 – The former Portuguese territories in India of Dadra and Nagar Haveli are merged to create the Union Territory Dadra and Nagar Haveli.

The town centre itself and the merged former municipalities consist of numerous villages ( Teilorte Town of Aalen ’ s website

The VFA, still in existence a century after the original schism, merged with the former VFL reserves competition in 1998.

National Alliance, launched in 1994, was officially founded in January 1995, when the Italian Social Movement ( MSI ), the former neo-fascist party, merged with conservative elements of the former Christian Democracy, which had disbanded in 1994 after two years of scandals and various splits due to corruption at its highest levels, exposed by the Mani Pulite investigation, and the Italian Liberal Party, disbanded in the same year.

During 1988, the Liberals formally merged with the SDP to form the Liberal Democrats, though a small splinter Liberal Party was formed in 1989 by former members opposed to the merger.

The amended terms allowed former members of multiple societies which merge into one to maintain multiple entitlements to FSCS protection until 30 September 2009 ( later extended to 30 December 2010 ), so ( for example ) a member with £ 50, 000 in each of Nationwide, Cheshire and Derbyshire at the time of the respective mergers would retain £ 150, 000 of FSCS protection for their funds in the merged Nationwide.

In 1969, the county was abolished and Carson City and a few small surrounding settlements within the former county were merged into a newly formed independent city called Carson City Consolidated Municipality.

* Civilian Conservation Corps ( CCC ) Legacy A merged non-profit foundation of the former National Association of CCC Alumni ( NACCCA ) and the Camp Roosevelt CCC Legacy Foundation

# The Law Concerning the Highest State Office of the Reich ( August 1, 1934 ) prescribed that upon the death of the incumbent president, that office would be merged with the office of the chancellor, and that the competencies of the former should be transferred to the " Führer und Reichskanzler Adolf Hitler ", as the law stated.

A former savings bank named for him was merged in the 1990s with Industrial Bank of Washington, D. C. A namesake, John Hanson Briscoe, was a circuit judge and Speaker of the Maryland House of Delegates.

After Australian federation, the six former colonial militias were merged to form the CMF.

Aided by Communist and leftist governments such as the former South Yemen ( People's Democratic Republic of Yemen ), the rebels formed the Dhofar Liberation Front, which later merged with the Marxist-dominated Popular Front for the Liberation of Oman and the Arab Gulf ( PFLOAG ).

* Progressive Conservative Party of Canada, a former political party which merged into the Conservative Party of Canada

The former Defense companies were merged into the Syrian Army as the 4th Armoured Division and the Republican Guard.

On 27 May 1949, the People's Liberation Army took control of Shanghai, which was one of only three former Republic of China ( ROC ) municipalities not merged into neighboring provinces over the next decade ( the others being Beijing and Tianjin ).

* Square ( company ), former video game company that merged with Enix to become Square Enix

On 7 May, the Nationalist opposition ( hitherto led by John Latham ), the six Labor dissidents ( who had formed the All for Australia League ), and former Prime Minister Billy Hughes ' Australian Party ( a group of former Nationalists who had been expelled for crossing the floor and bringing down Stanley Bruce's Nationalist government in 1929 ), merged to form the UAP.

** Victoria University of Manchester, a former College of the federal Victoria University ( UK ), now merged into the University of Manchester

Legislative elections were nonetheless held in early 1993, and in May the two former ruling parties, the GPC and the YSP, merged to create a single political party with an overall majority in the new House of Representatives.

Recent phylogenetic studies based on cpDNA restriction site analysis and gene sequencing strongly suggest that the Cannabaceae sensu stricto arose from within the former Celtidaceae family, and that the two families should be merged to form a single monophyletic family, the Cannabaceae sensu lato.

On 21 January 1947, the former state of Lippe was merged with North Rhine-Westphalia.

On August 2, the Moldavian Soviet Socialist Republic was established on most of the territory of Bessarabia, merged with the western parts of the former Moldavian ASSR.

In 1960 the territory gained independence and merged with former British Somaliland.