# The City of Gloucester (Electoral Changes) Order 1997, Article 2: Electoral changes: new wards


(1) The district wards of Barnwood and Hucclecote (as constituted by the City of Gloucester (Electoral Arrangements) Order 1976) shall be abolished and within the area of those wards as so constituted there shall be created three new district wards (“the new wards”) with the following names—
(a) Abbeymead,
(b) Barnwood, and
(c) Hucclecote;
and each ward shall consist of the area shown in respect of that ward on the maps.
(2) Where a boundary is shown on one of the maps as running along a road, railway line, footway, waterway or other similar geographical feature, it shall be treated as running along the centre line of the feature.
(3) The number of councillors to be elected for each of the new wards shall be three.
(4) The councillors holding office for the wards abolished by paragraph (1) shall retire on 11th May 1998.
(5) Elections for the councillors for the new wards shall be held on 7th May 1998, and the councillors then elected shall come into office on 11th May 1998.
(6) Subject to article 4(1) and (2), of the councillors elected for the new wards on 7th May 1998—
(a) the councillor elected by the smallest number of votes shall retire in 2000;
(b) the councillor elected by the next smallest number of votes shall retire in 2002; and
(c) the remaining councillor shall retire in 2003.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1997/157/article/2 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/city-of-gloucester-electoral-changes-order-1997/article-2
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