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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/borough-of-sefton-electoral-changes-order-2003/note",
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  "legislation": "uksi/2003/1977",
  "legislation_title": "The Borough of Sefton (Electoral Changes) Order 2003",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/borough-of-sefton-electoral-changes-order-2003",
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  "heading": "Explanatory note",
  "text": "(This note is not part of the Order)\nThis Order gives effect, with two modifications, to recommendations by the Boundary Committee for England, a committee of the Electoral Commission, for electoral changes in the borough of Sefton.\nThe modifications relate to the boundary between Park and Manor wards, creating two wards of Sefton parish (Sefton North and Sefton South parish wards), and to the external boundary of Derby ward with the City of Liverpool. (This boundary was altered by the Cheshire and Merseyside (County and Metropolitan Boundaries) Order 1993, but was shown in map referred to in the Boundary Committee recommendations as if that Order had not been made).\nThe changes have effect in relation to local government elections to be held on and after the ordinary day of elections in 2004.\nArticle 3 abolishes the existing wards of the borough and provides for the creation of 22 new wards. That article and Schedule also make provision for the names and areas of, and numbers of councillors for, the new wards.\nArticle 4 makes provision for a whole council election in 2004 and for reversion to the established system of election by thirds in subsequent years.\nArticles 5 to 8 make electoral changes in the parishes of Maghull, Sefton, Aintree and Lydiate.\nArticle 10 obliges the Electoral Registration Officer to make any necessary amendments to the electoral register to reflect the new electoral arrangements.\nArticle 11 revokes the Borough of Sefton (Electoral Changes) Order 1999, with the exception of articles 3(1) and 3(9).\nThe areas of the new borough and parish wards are demarcated on the map described in article 2. Prints of the map may be inspected at all reasonable times at the offices of Sefton Metropolitan Borough Council and at the principal office of the Electoral Commission at Trevelyan House, Great Peter Street, London SW1P 2HW.",
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  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
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