Explanatory note

This Order gives effect, with one modification, to recommendations by the Local Government Commission for England for electoral changes in the borough of Wyre. The changes have effect in relation to local government elections to be held on and after 1st May 2003.

The modification amends the boundary between the borough wards of Bourne and Staina by transferring part of the former ICI works from Bourne ward to Staina ward and for the boundary to follow the centre of the stream at Hillylaid Pool.

Article 2 abolishes the existing wards of the borough and provides for the creation of twenty-six new wards. That article and the Schedule also make provision for the names and areas of, and number of councillors for, the new wards.

Article 3 makes provision for the election of all councillors of the borough of Wyre to take place in 2003 and every four years after that year.

Article 4 provides electoral changes for the parish of Catterall.

Article 5 revokes the Borough of Wyre (Electoral Arrangements) Order 1976.

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 Wyre Borough Council and at the offices of the Secretary of State for Transport, Local Government and the Regions, 2nd Floor, Ashdown House, 123 Victoria Street, London SW1E 6DE.