Explanatory note

This Order gives effect, with modifications, to recommendations by the Boundary Committee for England, a committee of the Electoral Commission, for electoral changes in the county of Oxfordshire.

The modifications concern the boundaries and names of Banbury Easington, and Banbury Grimsbury and Castle electoral divisions and the names of Kennington and Radley, and West Central Oxford electoral divisions.

The changes have effect in relation to local government elections to be held on and after the ordinary day of election of councillors in 2005.

Article 3 abolishes the existing electoral divisions of the county and provides for the creation of 58 new electoral divisions. That article and the Schedule also make provision for the names and areas of, and numbers of councillors for, the new electoral divisions.

Article 4 makes electoral changes in the parish of Banbury.

Article 6 obliges the Electoral Registration Officer in each district or city in the county of Oxfordshire to make any necessary amendments to the electoral register to reflect the new electoral arrangements.

Article 7 revokes the County of Oxfordshire (Electoral Arrangements) Order 1983, with the exception of article 5.

The areas of the new parish wards of the parish of Banbury are demarcated on the map described in article 2. Prints of the map may be inspected at all reasonable times at the offices of Oxfordshire County Council and at the principal office of the Electoral Commission at Trevelyan House, Great Peter Street, London SW1P 2HW.