# The District of East Devon (Electoral Changes) Order 1999, Note: Explanatory note


(This note is not part of the Order)
This Order gives effect, subject to the modification detailed below, to recommendations by the Local Government Commission for England for electoral changes in the district of East Devon. The changes have effect in relation to local government elections to be held on and after 1st May 2003.
The modification relates to the ward boundary between the Exmouth Halsdon and the Exmouth Town wards. Its effect is to place Carter Avenue and Southern Road in the Exmouth Halsdon ward.
Article 2 abolishes the existing wards of the district and provides for the creation of 32 new wards. That article and the Schedule make provision for the names and areas of, and numbers of councillors for, the new wards.
Articles 3 to 5 make electoral changes in the parishes of Exmouth, Gittisham and Honiton.
Article 6 revokes the District of East Devon (Electoral Arrangements) Order 1978.
The areas of the new district wards are demarcated on the map described in article 1(3). Prints of the map may be inspected at all reasonable times at the offices of the East Devon District 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.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1999/2467/note (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/district-of-east-devon-electoral-changes-order-1999/note
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