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S.I. No. 70/2014 - County of Wicklow Local Electoral Areas and Municipal Districts Order 2014

Type Statutory Instrument

Publication 2014-02-07

Last updated 2019-01-11

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3 amending acts · 2019-01-11, S.I. No. 638/2018 - County of Wicklow Local Electoral Areas and Municipal Districts Order 2018

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Notice of the making of this Statutory Instrument was published in

“Iris Oifigiúil” of 7th February, 2014.

The Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government in exercise of the powers conferred on him by sections 4 and 23 of the Local Government Act 2001 (No. 37 of 2001) and having regard to section 28 (1)(d) of the Local Government Reform Act 2014 (No. 1 of 2014) hereby orders as follows:

1.

This Order may be cited as the County of Wicklow Local Electoral Areas and Municipal Districts Order 2014.

2.

(1) The County of Wicklow shall be divided into the local electoral areas which are named in the first column of the Schedule to this Order.

(2) Each such local electoral area shall consist of the area described in the second column of the Schedule to this Order opposite the name of such local electoral area.

(3) The number of members of Wicklow County Council to be elected for each such local electoral area shall be the number set out in the third column of the Schedule to this Order opposite the name of that local electoral area.

3.

Every reference in the Schedule to this Order to an electoral division shall be construed as referring to such electoral division as existing at the date of this Order and every reference to a former rural district shall be construed as a reference to that district as constituted immediately before the 1st day of October 1925.

4.

The County of Wicklow shall have the following municipal districts for the purposes of section 22A (inserted by the Local Government Reform Act 2014 (No. 1 of 2014)) of the Local Government Act 2001 (No. 37 of 2001):

(a) the Municipal District of Arklow consisting of the Local Electoral Area of Arklow;

(b) the Municipal District of Baltinglass consisting of the Local Electoral Area of Baltinglass;

(d) the Municipal District of Greystones consisting of the Local Electoral Area of Greystones;

(e) the Municipal District of Wicklow consisting of the Local Electoral Area of Wicklow.

5.

The County of Wicklow Local Electoral Areas Order 1998 (S.I. 311 of 1998) is revoked.

Schedule


Name of Local Electoral Area	Description of Local Electoral Area	Number of Members to be elected for each Local Electoral Area
Arklow	The electoral divisions of Arklow No. 1 Urban, Arklow No. 2 Urban, Arklow Rural, Aughrim, Avoca, Ballinaclash, Ballinacor, Ballinderry, Ballyarthur, Cronebane, Dunganstown South, Dunganstown West, Ennereilly, Kilballyowen, Kilbride (in the former Rural District of Rathdrum), Kilpipe, Knockrath, Rathdrum.	6
Baltinglass	The electoral divisions of Aghowle, Ballingate, Ballinglen, Ballinguile, Ballybeg, Baltinglass, Blessington, Burgage, Carnew, Coolattin, Coolballintaggart, Coolboy, Cronelea, Donaghmore, Donard, Dunlavin, Eadestown, Hartstown, Hollywood, Humewood, Imael North, Imael South, Kilbride (in the former Rural District of Baltinglass No. 1), Killinure, Lackan, Lugglass, Money, Rath, Rathdangan, Rathsallagh, Shillelagh, Stratford, Talbotstown, The Grange, Tinahely, Tober, Togher (in the former Rural District of Baltinglass No. 1), Tuckmill.	6
Bray	The electoral divisions of Bray No. 1, Bray No. 2, Bray No. 3, Enniskerry, Kilmacanoge, Powerscourt, Rathmichael (Bray).	8
Greystones	The electoral divisions of Delgany, Greystones, Kilcoole, Newcastle Lower.	6
Wicklow	The electoral divisions of Altidore, Ballycullen, Brockagh, Calary, Dunganstown East, Glendalough, Glenealy, Killiskey, Moneystown, Newcastle Upper, Oldtown, Togher (in the former Rural District of Rathdrum), Trooperstown, Wicklow Rural, Wicklow Urban.	6

GIVEN under the Official Seal of the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government,

31 January 2014.

PHIL HOGAN,

Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government.

EXPLANATORY NOTE

(This note is not part of the Instrument and does not purport to be a legal interpretation.)

The effect of this Order is to amend the division of County Wicklow into local electoral areas, to fix the number of members of Wicklow County Council to be elected for each such area and to determine the municipal districts for County Wicklow.

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