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The Borough of Wigan (Electoral Changes) (Amendment) Order 2005

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Statutory Instruments

2005 No. 2707

LOCAL GOVERNMENT, ENGLAND

The Borough of Wigan (Electoral Changes) (Amendment) Order 2005

Made

29th September 2005

Coming into force in accordance with article 1(2)

The Electoral Commission(1), in exercise of the powers conferred upon them by sections 17(2) and 26(3) of the Local Government Act 1992, hereby make the following Order:

Citation and commencement

1.—(1) This Order may be cited as the Borough of Wigan (Electoral Changes) (Amendment) Order 2005.

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

Amendment to the 2004 Order

2.—(1) The Borough of Wigan (Electoral Changes) Order 2004(4) shall be amended as follows:

(2) In article 2 “any reference to the map is a reference to the map marked “Revised (2005) Map referred to in the Borough of Wigan (Electoral Changes) Order 2004”, of which prints are available” shall be substituted for the words from “any reference to the map” to “of which prints are available”.

(3) In article 5 “the map marked “Revised (2005) Map referred to in the Borough of Wigan (Electoral Changes) Order 2004” available for inspection” shall be substituted for the words from “the map marked” to “available for inspection”.

Sealed with the seal of the Electoral Commission on the 29th day of September 2005

L.S.

Sam Younger

Chairman of the Commission

29th September 2005

Jacqui Dixon

Secretary to the Commission

29th September 2005

Explanatory Note

(This note is not part of the Order)

This Order substitutes a new map for that originally referred to in the Borough of Wigan (Electoral Changes) Order 2004, in order to give full effect to recommendations by the Boundary Committee for England, a committee of the Electoral Commission, for electoral changes in the borough of Wigan.

Prints of the map may be inspected at all reasonable times at the offices of Wigan Metropolitan Borough Council and at the principal office of the Electoral Commission at Trevelyan House, Great Peter Street, London SW1P 2HW or may be viewed on the Boundary Committee for England’s website at www.boundarycommittee.org.uk/your-area/wigan.cfm.

(1)

The Electoral Commission was established by the Political Parties, Elections and Referendums Act 2000 (c. 41). The functions of the Secretary of State, under sections 13 to 15 and 17 of the Local Government Act 1992 (c. 19), so far as they relate to electoral changes within the meaning of that Act, were transferred with modifications to the Electoral Commission by the Local Government Commission for England (Transfer of Functions) Order 2001 (S.I. 2001/3962).

(2)

1992 c. 19. This section has been amended by S.I. 2001/3962 and also otherwise in ways not relevant to this Order.

(3)

This section has been amended by S.I. 2001/3962.

(4)

S.I. 2004/365.

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