The European Parliamentary Elections (Returning Officers) (England and Wales) Order 1994

Made21st March 1994

Coming into force in accordance with article 1(2) and (3)

In exercise of the powers conferred upon me by paragraph 4(1) of Schedule 1 to, and section 9(2) of, the European Parliamentary Elections Act 19781, I hereby make the following Order:

1

This Order may be cited as the European Parliamentary Elections (Returning Officers) (England and Wales) Order 1994.

2

This Order shall come into force at the first general election of representatives to the European Parliament held after section 1 of the European Parliamentary Elections Act 19932 comes into force, except that for the purpose of all proceedings preliminary or relating to that election this Order shall come into force when the said section 1 comes into force.

3

For the purposes of paragraph (2) above, section 1 of the said Act of 1993 shall not be regarded as having come into force until it has come into force for all purposes or all remaining purposes, as the case may be.

4

In this Order, a reference to a parliamentary constituency or to a European Parliamentary constituency is a reference to such a constituency as it is for the time being.

2

In England and Wales, the returning officer for a European Parliamentary election in the European Parliamentary constituency specified in column 1 of the Schedule to this Order shall be the returning officer for a parliamentary election for the parliamentary consituency specified opposite thereto in column 2 of that Schedule.

3

The European Parliamentary Elections (Returning Officers) (England and Wales) Order 19843 is hereby revoked.

Michael HowardOne of Her Majesty’s Principal Secretaries of StateHome Office21st March 1994

SCHEDULERETURNING OFFICERS FOR EUROPEAN PARLIAMENTARY CONSTITUENCIES

Article 2

(1)	(2)
Name of European Parliamentary constituency	Name of parliamentary constituency
ENGLAND
Northumbria	Wallsend
Cumbria and Lancashire North	Lancaster
Tyne and Wear	Sunderland North
Durham	Sedgefield
Cleveland and Richmond	Stockton South
North Yorkshire	Ryedale
Humberside	Kingston upon Hull North
Lancashire Central	Blackpool North
Lancashire South	Chorley
Yorkshire West	Bradford West
Leeds	Pudsey
Merseyside West	Liverpool, Walton
Merseyside East and Wigan	Wigan
Cheshire West and Wirral	Wallasey
Greater Manchester West	Bolton West
Greater Manchester East	Stalybridge and Hyde
Greater Manchester Central	Manchester, Withington
Cheshire East	Warrington North
Yorkshire South West	Batley and Spen
Yorkshire South	Don Valley
Sheffield	Sheffield, Hallam
Peak District	Erewash
Nottinghamshire North and Chesterfield	Sherwood
Lincolnshire and Humberside South	Grantham
Staffordshire West and Congleton	Stoke-on-Trent North
Staffordshire East and Derby	Derby North
Nottingham and Leicestershire North West	Nottingham South
Leicester	Leicester South
Cambridgeshire	South West Cambridgeshire
Norfolk	Mid Norfolk
Herefordshire and Shropshire	The Wrekin
Birmingham West	Sutton Coldfield
Midlands West	Dudley West
Birmingham East	Birmingham, Selly Oak
Coventry and North Warwickshire	Coventry North East
Northamptonshire and Blaby	Northampton South
Suffolk and South West Norfolk	Waveney
Worcestershire and South Warwickshire	Mid Worcestershire
Bedfordshire and Milton Keynes	North Luton
Essex North and Suffolk South	South Colchester and Maldon
The Cotswolds	Cirencester and Tewkesbury
Buckinghamshire and Oxfordshire East	Aylesbury
Hertfordshire	North Hertfordshire
Essex West and Hertfordshire East	Chelmsford
Essex South	Billericay
Bristol	Bristol North West
Wiltshire North and Bath	Swindon
Hampshire North and Oxford	Oxford West and Abingdon
Thames Valley	Reading East
Surrey	Chertsey and Walton
Kent West	Mid Kent
Kent East	North Thanet
Somerset and North Devon	Yeovil
Itchen, Test and Avon	Romsey and Waterside
Wight and Hampshire South	Portsmouth North
South Downs West	Horsham
Sussex South and Crawley	Brighton, Kemptown
East Sussex and Kent South	Tunbridge Wells
Cornwall and West Plymouth	Plymouth, Devonport
Devon and East Plymouth	South Hams
Dorset and East Devon	Bournemouth West
London North West	Uxbridge
London North	Chipping Barnet
London East	Upminster
London South East	Beckenham
London South Inner	Lewisham West
London South West	Tooting
London West	Ealing, Southall
London Central	Holborn and St. Pancras
London North East	Leyton
London South and Surrey East	Croydon South
WALES
North Wales	Delyn
Mid and West Wales	Pembroke
South Wales West	Swansea West
South Wales Central	Cardiff South and Penarth
South Wales East	Newport West

(This note is not part of the Order)

This Order designates the parliamentary constituencies whose returning officers at parliamentary elections are to be returning officers at European Parliamentary elections in England and Wales (article 2 and the Schedule). Under article 1(2) and (3) of this Order, it does not come into force until the first general election of representatives to the European Parliament after section 1 of the European Parliamentary Elections Act 1993 comes into force for all or all remaining purposes.