Explanatory note

This Order gives effect, subject to modifications, to recommendations by the Local Government Commission for England for electoral changes in the borough of Sefton. The modifications relate to the names of two borough wards; designated by this Order as “Dukes” and “Netherton and Orrell”.

Article 2 abolishes all of the existing wards of the borough and provides for the creation of 22 new wards. That article and the Schedule also make provision for the names and areas of the new wards. Each ward is to be represented by three councillors.

Article 3 makes provision for a whole council election in Sefton in 2000 and reversion to elections by thirds in subsequent years.

Article 4 revokes the Borough of Sefton (Electoral Arrangements) Order 1978.

The areas of the new borough 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 Sefton 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.