# The Borough of High Peak (Electoral Changes) Order 1999, Note: Explanatory note


(This note is not part of the Order)
This Order gives effect, subject to a modification, to recommendations by the Local Government Commission for England for electoral changes in the borough of High Peak. The changes have effect in relation to local government elections to be held on and after 1st May 2003. The modification relates to the number of councillors to be elected for the wards of the parish of New Mills.
Article 2 abolishes all of the existing wards of the borough and provides for the creation of 28 new wards. That article and the Schedule also make provision for the names and areas of, and numbers of councillors for, the new wards.
Articles 3 to 6 make electoral changes in the parishes of Chapel-en-le-Frith, Charlesworth, Hayfield and New Mills.
Article 7 revokes the Borough of High Peak (Electoral Arrangements) Order 1977.
The areas of the new borough 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 High Peak Borough Council and at the offices of the Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions, 2nd Floor, Ashdown House, 123 Victoria Street, London SW1E 6DE.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1999/2695/note (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/borough-of-high-peak-electoral-changes-order-1999/note
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