Explanatory Note
(This note is not part of the Order)
This Order gives effect to recommendations by the Local Government Commission for England for electoral changes in the borough of Amber Valley. The modifications relate to the names of the wards of Heanor and Loscoe, Ironville and Riddings, Langley Mill and Aldercar and Shipley Park, Horsley and Horsley Woodhouse.
Article 2 abolishes the existing wards of the borough and provides for the creation of 23 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 Amber Valley in 2000 and reversion to elections by thirds in subsequent years. Schedule 2 regulates the order of retirement of councillors.
Articles 4 to 7 make electoral changes in the towns of Belper, Heanor and Loscoe, and Ripley, and in the parish of Crich.
Article 8 revokes the District of Amber Valley (Electoral Arrangements) Order 1978.
The areas of the new borough 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 Amber Valley Borough 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.