1.—(1) This Order may be cited as the District of Derbyshire Dales (Electoral Changes) Order 1999.
(2) This Order shall come into force—
(a)for the purposes of proceedings preliminary or relating to any election to be held on 1st May 2003, on 10th October 2002;
(b)for all other purposes, on 1st May 2003.
(3) In this Order—
“district” means the district of Derbyshire Dales;
“existing”, in relation to a ward, means the ward as it exists on the date this Order is made;
any reference to the map is a reference to the map prepared by the Department of the Environment, Transport and the Regions marked “Map of the District of Derbyshire Dales (Electoral Changes) Order 1999”, and deposited in accordance with regulation 27 of the Local Government Changes for England Regulations 1994(1); and
any reference to a numbered sheet is a reference to the sheet of the map which bears that number.
2.—(1) The existing wards of the district(2) shall be abolished.
(2) The district shall be divided into twenty-five wards which shall bear the names set out in column (1) of the Schedule.
(3) The wards shall comprise the areas described in column (2) of the Schedule by reference to parishes, or parish wards, or parishes and parish wards or, where no area is so described, the area designated on the map by reference to the name of the ward and demarcated by red lines; and the number of councillors to be elected for each ward shall be the number specified in respect of the ward in column (3) of the Schedule.
(4) Where a boundary is shown on the map as running along a road, railway line, footway, waterway or similar geographical feature, it shall be treated as running along the centre line of the feature.
3.—(1) The town of Ashbourne shall be divided into four town wards which shall bear the names Belle Vue, Hilltop, Parkside and St Oswalds; and the wards shall comprise the areas designated on sheet 2 by reference to the names of the wards and demarcated by orange lines.
(2) The number of councillors to be elected for the Hilltop town ward shall be four and for each of the Belle Vue, Parkside and St Oswalds town wards shall be three.
4. The District of West Derbyshire (Electoral Arrangements) Order 1977 is hereby revoked.
Signed by authority of the Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions
Beverley Hughes,
Parliamentary Under Secretary of State,
Department of the Environment, Transport and the Regions
27th September 1999