The District of South Northamptonshire (Electoral Changes) Order 1998

Made: 8th October 1998

Coming into force in accordance with article 1(2)

Now, therefore, the Secretary of State, in exercise of the powers conferred on him by sections 17² and 26 of the Local Government Act 1992, and of all other powers enabling him in that behalf, hereby makes the following Order:

Citation, commencement and interpretation

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• (1) This Order may be cited as the District of South Northamptonshire (Electoral Changes) Order 1998.

• (2) This Order shall come into force for all purposes on 6th May 1999, except that for the purpose of all proceedings preliminary or relating to an election to be held on or after that date this Order shall come into force on 10th October 1998.

• (3) In this Order–

• “the district” means the district of South Northamptonshire;

• “existing”, in relation to a ward, means the ward as it exists on the date this Order is made; and

• any reference to “the map” is a reference to the map prepared by the Department of the Environment, Transport and the Regions, marked “Map of the District of South Northamptonshire (Electoral Changes) Order 1998”, and deposited in accordance with regulation 27 of the Local Government Changes for England Regulations 1994³.

Wards of South Northamptonshire

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• (1) The existing wards of the district⁴ shall be abolished.

• (2) The district shall be divided into thirty-one wards which shall bear the names set out in column (1) of Schedule 1.

• (3) The wards shall comprise the areas described in column (2) of that Schedule by reference to parishes, or, where no area is so described, the area designated on the map by reference to the name of the ward and demarcated by red lines; and the number of councillors to be elected for each ward shall be the number specified in respect of the ward in column (3) of that Schedule.

• (4) Where a boundary is shown on the map as running along a road, railway line, footway, waterway or other similar geographical feature, it shall be treated as running along the centre line of the feature.

Wards of the parish of Brackley

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• (1) The existing wards of the parish of Brackley shall be abolished.

• (2) The parish shall be divided into three parish wards which shall bear the names set out in column (1) of Schedule 2; each parish ward shall comprise the area of the district ward specified in respect of that parish ward in column (2) of that Schedule and the number of councillors to be elected for each parish ward shall be five.

Wards of the parish of Towcester

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The parish shall be divided into two parish wards which shall bear the names set out in column (1) of Schedule 3; each parish ward shall comprise the area of the district ward specified in respect of that parish ward in column (2) of that Schedule and the number of councillors to be elected for each parish ward shall be eight.

Revocation

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The District of South Northamptonshire (Electoral Arrangements) Order 1976 is hereby revoked.

SCHEDULE 1 — DISTRICT OF SOUTH NORTHAMPTONSHIRE: NAMES AND AREAS OF WARDS AND NUMBERS OF COUNCILLORS

SCHEDULE 2 — WARDS OF THE PARISH OF BRACKLEY: NAMES AND AREAS

SCHEDULE 3 — WARDS OF THE PARISH OF TOWCESTER: NAMES AND AREAS

Signed

Signed by authority of the Secretary of State

Hilary Armstrong — Minister of State, — Department of the Environment, Transport and the Regions — 8th October 1998

Explanatory note

(This note is not part of the Order)

This Order gives effect to recommendations by the Local Government Commission for England for electoral changes in the district of South Northamptonshire.

Article 2 abolishes all of the existing wards of the district and provides for the creation of 31 new wards. That article and Schedule 1 also make provision for the names and areas of, and numbers of councillors for, the new wards.

Articles 3 and 4 make electoral changes in the parishes of Brackley and Towcester.

The areas of the new district and parish wards are demarcated on the map described in article 1(3). Prints of the map may be inspected at all reasonable times at the offices of the South Northamptonshire District Council and at the offices of the Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions, which are located at 2nd Floor, Ashdown House, 123 Victoria Street, London SW1E 6DE.

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