Explanatory note

This Order gives effect, subject to the modifications detailed below, to recommendations by the Local Government Commission for England for electoral changes in the county of Lincolnshire. The changes have effect in relation to local government elections to be held on and after 3rd May 2001.

The modifications relate to names of wards. The Secretary of State has decided that the wards shown in the first column of the Table below with the names proposed by the Commission should be named in accordance with the second column.

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.

Article 3 makes electoral changes in the parish of Gainsborough. The changes have effect in relation to local government elections to be held on or after 6th May 2004.

Article 4 revokes the County of Lincolnshire (Electoral Arrangements) Order 1980 and article 4 of the District of West Lindsey (Electoral Changes) Order 1998.

The areas of the new divisions and of the new wards of the parish of Gainsborough 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 Lincolnshire 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.