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Article 1 Citation, commencement and interpretation

Original text. Later amendments are not shown.

(1)

This Order may be cited as the County of Somerset (Electoral Changes) Order 2000.

(2)

This article and articles 2 and 5 shall come into force—

(a)

for the purpose of proceedings preliminary or relating to any election to be held on 3rd May 2001, on 10th October 2000;

(b)

for all other purposes, on 3rd May 2001.

(3)

Articles 3 and 4 of this Order shall come into force—

(a)

for the purpose of proceedings preliminary or relating to any election of a parish councillor for the parish of Frome or Burnham-on-Sea and Highbridge on 1st May 2003, on 10th October 2002;

(b)

for all other purposes, on 1st May 2003.

(4)

In this Order—

  • “county” means the county of Somerset;

  • “existing”, in relation to a division or ward, means the division or ward as it exists on the date this Order is made;

  • references to wards, unless the context otherwise requires, are references to district and borough wards in the countyf1;

  • any reference to the map is a reference to the map prepared by the Department of the Environment, Transport and the Regions marked “Map of the County of Somerset (Electoral Changes) Order 2000”, and deposited in accordance with regulation 27 of the Local Government Changes for England Regulations 1994f2; and

  • any reference to a numbered sheet is a reference to the sheet of the map which bears that number.

Annotations

Footnotes

f1

See the District of Mendip (Electoral Changes) Order 1998 (S.I. 1998/2464), the District of Sedgemoor (Electoral Changes) Order 1998 (S.I. 1998/2465), the District of South Somerset (Electoral Changes) Order 1998 (S.I. 1998/2462), the Borough of Taunton Deane (Electoral Changes) Order 1998 (S.I. 1998/2461) and the District of West Somerset (Electoral Changes) Order 1998 (S.I. 1998/2463).

f2

S.I. 1994/867, to which there are amendments not relevant to this Order.