LegalizeThe European Parliamentary Elections (Returning Officers) (England and Wales) Order 1994
Made: 21st March 1994
Coming into force in accordance with article 1(2) and (3)
In exercise of the powers conferred upon me by paragraph 4(1) of Schedule 1 to, and section 9(2) of, the European Parliamentary Elections Act 1978[^f00001], I hereby make the following Order:
1
- (1) This Order may be cited as the European Parliamentary Elections (Returning Officers) (England and Wales) Order 1994.
- (2) This Order shall come into force at the first general election of representatives to the European Parliament held after section 1 of the European Parliamentary Elections Act 1993[^f00002] comes into force, except that for the purpose of all proceedings preliminary or relating to that election this Order shall come into force when the said section 1 comes into force.
- (3) For the purposes of paragraph (2) above, section 1 of the said Act of 1993 shall not be regarded as having come into force until it has come into force for all purposes or all remaining purposes, as the case may be.
- (4) In this Order, a reference to a parliamentary constituency or to a European Parliamentary constituency is a reference to such a constituency as it is for the time being.
2
In England and Wales, the returning officer for a European Parliamentary election in the European Parliamentary constituency specified in column 1 of the Schedule to this Order shall be the returning officer for a parliamentary election for the parliamentary consituency specified opposite thereto in column 2 of that Schedule.
3
The European Parliamentary Elections (Returning Officers) (England and Wales) Order 1984[^f00003] is hereby revoked.
SCHEDULE — RETURNING OFFICERS FOR EUROPEAN PARLIAMENTARY CONSTITUENCIES
| (1) | (2) |
|---|---|
| Name of European Parliamentary constituency | Name of parliamentary constituency |
| ENGLAND | |
| Northumbria | Wallsend |
| Cumbria and Lancashire North | Lancaster |
| Tyne and Wear | Sunderland North |
| Durham | Sedgefield |
| Cleveland and Richmond | Stockton South |
| North Yorkshire | Ryedale |
| Humberside | Kingston upon Hull North |
| Lancashire Central | Blackpool North |
| Lancashire South | Chorley |
| Yorkshire West | Bradford West |
| Leeds | Pudsey |
| Merseyside West | Liverpool, Walton |
| Merseyside East and Wigan | Wigan |
| Cheshire West and Wirral | Wallasey |
| Greater Manchester West | Bolton West |
| Greater Manchester East | Stalybridge and Hyde |
| Greater Manchester Central | Manchester, Withington |
| Cheshire East | Warrington North |
| Yorkshire South West | Batley and Spen |
| Yorkshire South | Don Valley |
| Sheffield | Sheffield, Hallam |
| Peak District | Erewash |
| Nottinghamshire North and Chesterfield | Sherwood |
| Lincolnshire and Humberside South | Grantham |
| Staffordshire West and Congleton | Stoke-on-Trent North |
| Staffordshire East and Derby | Derby North |
| Nottingham and Leicestershire North West | Nottingham South |
| Leicester | Leicester South |
| Cambridgeshire | South West Cambridgeshire |
| Norfolk | Mid Norfolk |
| Herefordshire and Shropshire | The Wrekin |
| Birmingham West | Sutton Coldfield |
| Midlands West | Dudley West |
| Birmingham East | Birmingham, Selly Oak |
| Coventry and North Warwickshire | Coventry North East |
| Northamptonshire and Blaby | Northampton South |
| Suffolk and South West Norfolk | Waveney |
| Worcestershire and South Warwickshire | Mid Worcestershire |
| Bedfordshire and Milton Keynes | North Luton |
| Essex North and Suffolk South | South Colchester and Maldon |
| The Cotswolds | Cirencester and Tewkesbury |
| Buckinghamshire and Oxfordshire East | Aylesbury |
| Hertfordshire | North Hertfordshire |
| Essex West and Hertfordshire East | Chelmsford |
| Essex South | Billericay |
| Bristol | Bristol North West |
| Wiltshire North and Bath | Swindon |
| Hampshire North and Oxford | Oxford West and Abingdon |
| Thames Valley | Reading East |
| Surrey | Chertsey and Walton |
| Kent West | Mid Kent |
| Kent East | North Thanet |
| Somerset and North Devon | Yeovil |
| Itchen, Test and Avon | Romsey and Waterside |
| Wight and Hampshire South | Portsmouth North |
| South Downs West | Horsham |
| Sussex South and Crawley | Brighton, Kemptown |
| East Sussex and Kent South | Tunbridge Wells |
| Cornwall and West Plymouth | Plymouth, Devonport |
| Devon and East Plymouth | South Hams |
| Dorset and East Devon | Bournemouth West |
| London North West | Uxbridge |
| London North | Chipping Barnet |
| London East | Upminster |
| London South East | Beckenham |
| London South Inner | Lewisham West |
| London South West | Tooting |
| London West | Ealing, Southall |
| London Central | Holborn and St. Pancras |
| London North East | Leyton |
| London South and Surrey East | Croydon South |
| WALES | |
| North Wales | Delyn |
| Mid and West Wales | Pembroke |
| South Wales West | Swansea West |
| South Wales Central | Cardiff South and Penarth |
| South Wales East | Newport West |
Signed
Michael Howard — One of Her Majesty’s Principal Secretaries of State — 21st March 1994
Explanatory note
(This note is not part of the Order)
This Order designates the parliamentary constituencies whose returning officers at parliamentary elections are to be returning officers at European Parliamentary elections in England and Wales (article 2 and the Schedule). Under article 1(2) and (3) of this Order, it does not come into force until the first general election of representatives to the European Parliament after section 1 of the European Parliamentary Elections Act 1993 comes into force for all or all remaining purposes.
Footnotes
[^f00001]: 1978 c. 10; the title of this Act was amended by section 3(1)(b) and (2)(b) of the European Communities (Amendment) Act 1986 (c. 58) on the coming into force of the Single European Act (Cmnd 9758) on 1st July 1987.
[^f00002]: 1993 c. 41.
[^f00003]: S.I. 1984/571.
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