The District of South Shropshire (Electoral Changes) (Amendment) Order 2000

This instrument is made for the purpose of correcting an error in the Schedule to S.I. 2000/1420 and is being issued, free of charge, to all known recipients of that statutory instrument.

Statutory Instruments

2000 No. 3364

LOCAL GOVERNMENT, ENGLAND

The District of South Shropshire (Electoral Changes) (Amendment) Order 2000

Made

21st December 2000

Coming into force in accordance with article 1(2)

The Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions, in exercise of the powers conferred on him by sections 17 and 26 of the Local Government Act 1992(1), and of all other powers enabling him in that behalf, hereby makes the following Order:

Citation and commencement

1.—(1) This Order may be cited as the District of South Shropshire (Electoral Changes) (Amendment) Order 2000.

(2) This Order shall come into force on the day after that on which it is made.

Amendment of Order

2.  The District of South Shropshire (Electoral Changes) Order 2000(2) is amended, in column (3) of the Schedule, in respect of the column (1) entry “Worthen”, by the substitution, for the numeral “1”, of the numeral “2”.

Signed by authority of the Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions

Beverley Hughes

Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State,

Department for the Environment, Transport and the Regions

21st December 2000

Explanatory Note

(This note is not part of the Order)

This Order corrects an error in the District of South Shropshire (Electoral Changes) Order 2000, which has effect in relation to local government elections to be held on and after 1st May 2003. It provides for two councillors to be elected for the Worthen ward.

(1)

1992 c. 19. Section 17 is amended by section 39(4) and (5) of the Police and Magistrates' Courts Act 1994 (c. 29).

(2)

S.I. 2000/1420.