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This Order gives effect, subject to modifications, to recommendations by the Local Government Commission for England for electoral changes in the borough of Newcastle-under-Lyme. The changes have effect in relation to local government elections to be held on or after 2nd May 2002.
The modifications; the Secretary of State has decided that the whole of the former colliery site should be in the borough ward of Silverdale and Parksite; and that the borough ward for which the Commission proposed the name “Silverdale and Knutton” shall bear the name “Knutton and Silverdale”.
Article 2 abolishes the existing wards of the borough and provides for the creation of 24 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.
Articles 4 and 5 make electoral changes in the parishes of Audley Rural and Kidsgrove.
Article 6 revokes the Borough of Newcastle-under-Lyme (Electoral Arrangements) Order 1978.
The areas of the new borough and parish 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 the Newcastle-under-Lyme 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.
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