# The Borough of Blackburn (Parishes and Electoral Changes) Order 1997, Note: Explanatory note


(This note is not part of the Order)
This Order gives effect to recommendations by the Local Government Commission for England for boundary and electoral changes in the borough of Blackburn.
Article 2 makes changes to the boundaries of the parishes of Eccleshill, Yate and Pickup Bank, Livesey and Tockholes.
Article 3 abolishes all of the existing wards of the borough and provides for the creation of 22 new wards. That article and Schedule 1 also make provision for the names and areas of, and numbers of councillors for, the new wards.
Article 4 makes provision for a whole council election in Blackburn in 1997 and for reversion to elections by thirds in subsequent years. Schedule 2 provides for the order of retirement of councillors.
Article 5 makes provision in respect of parish council elections in parishes within district council wards where no district council election is to take place in 1999 or 2003 (both of which are otherwise ordinary years of election for parish councils).
The parish boundary changes are shown, and the areas of the new district 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 Blackburn Borough Council and at the offices of the Secretary of State for the Environment, which, until May 1997, are located at 2 Marsham Street, London SW1P 3EB and, thereafter, at 2nd Floor, Ashdown House, 123 Victoria Street, London SW1E 6DE.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1997/782/note (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/borough-of-blackburn-parishes-and-electoral-changes-order-1997/note
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