# The District of Stratford on Avon (Electoral Changes) Order 2000, 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 Stratford on Avon.
The modification is that the parish of Lighthorne is not to be warded.
Article 2 abolishes the existing wards of the district and provides for the creation of thirty-one new wards. That article and Schedule 1 also make provision for the names and areas of, and numbers of councillors for, the new wards.
Article 3 makes provision for a whole council election in 2002 and for reversion to elections by thirds in subsequent years. Schedule 2 regulates the order of retirement of councillors.
Article 4 makes electoral changes in the parish of Stratford-upon-Avon.
Article 5 provides for elections of parish councils in the district.
Article 6 revokes the District of Stratford-on-Avon (Electoral Arrangements) Order 1977.
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 Stratford on Avon 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/2000/2059/note (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/district-of-stratford-on-avon-electoral-changes-order-2000/note
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