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Explanatory note

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(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 borough of Vale Royal.

Article 2 abolishes all of the existing wards of the borough and provides for the creation of 28 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 3 makes provision for a whole council election in Vale Royal in 1999.

Articles 4 to 9 make changes to electoral arrangements for the parishes of Davenham, Frodsham, Helsby, Lostock Gralam, Northwich and Winsford.

Article 10 revokes the Borough of Vale Royal (Electoral Arrangements) Order 1976.

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 the Vale Royal Borough 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.