Explanatory note

This Order gives effect, without modification, to recommendations by the Local Government Commission for England for electoral changes in the county of Hertfordshire. The changes have effect in relation to local government elections to be held on and after 3rd May 2001.

Article 2 abolishes the existing divisions of the county and provides for the creation of 77 new divisions. That article and the Schedule also make provision for the names and areas of the new divisions. One councillor is to be elected for each division.

Articles 3 make electoral changes in the parish of Abbots Langley. The changes have effect in relation to local government elections to be held on or after 1st May 2003.

Article 4 revokes the County of Hertfordshire (Electoral Arrangements) Order 1980 and article 5 of the District of Three Rivers (Parishes and Electoral Changes) Order 1998.

The areas of the new electoral divisions and of the new parish wards of the parish of Abbotts Langley are demarcated on the map described in article 1(4). Prints of the map may be inspected at all reasonable times at the offices of Hertfordshire County 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.