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Statutory Instruments

1999 No. 3380

LONDON GOVERNMENT

REPRESENTATION OF THE PEOPLE

The Greater London Authority (Assembly Constituencies and Returning Officers) Order 1999

Made

17th December 1999

Coming into force

22nd December 1999

The Secretary of State, in exercise of the powers conferred on him by section 2(4) of the Greater London Authority Act 1999(1) and section 35(2B) of the Representation of the People Act 1983(2), hereby makes the following Order:

Citation and commencement

1.  This Order may be cited as the Greater London Authority (Assembly Constituencies and Returning Officers) Order 1999 and shall come into force on 22nd December 1999.

Assembly constituencies and returning officers

2.  For the purposes of Part I (the Greater London Authority) of the Greater London Authority Act 1999—

(a)the Assembly constituencies shall be the areas, and shall be known by the names, specified in columns (1) and (2), respectively, in the following Table; and

(b)as regards each such constituency, the person who is for the time being the returning officer in relation to other local government elections(3) in the borough specified in relation to that constituency in column (3) of the Table shall also be the returning officer at any election in that constituency of a constituency member of the London Assembly:

(1)(2)(3)
Area of constituencyName of constituencyBorough
The London boroughs of Havering and RedbridgeHavering & RedbridgeHavering
The London borough of Barking & Dagenham, the City of London and the London boroughs of Newham and Tower HamletsCity & EastNewham
The London boroughs of Hackney, Islington and Waltham ForestNorth EastWaltham Forest
The London boroughs of Enfield and HaringeyEnfield & HaringeyEnfield
The London boroughs of Hammersmith & Fulham and Kensington & Chelsea and the City of WestminsterWest CentralWestminster
The London boroughs of Barnet and CamdenBarnet & CamdenBarnet
The London boroughs of Brent and HarrowBrent & HarrowBrent
The London boroughs of Ealing and HillingdonEaling & HillingdonEaling
The London boroughs of Hounslow, Kingston upon Thames and Richmond upon ThamesSouth WestHounslow
The London boroughs of Merton and WandsworthMerton & WandsworthWandsworth
The London boroughs of Croydon and SuttonCroydon & SuttonCroydon
The London boroughs of Lambeth and SouthwarkLambeth and SouthwarkLambeth
The London boroughs of Greenwich and LewishamGreenwich and LewishamLewisham
The London boroughs of Bexley and BromleyBexley and BromleyBromley

Signed by authority of the Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions

Keith Hill

Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State,

Department of the Environment, Transport and the Regions

17th December 1999

Explanatory Note

(This note is not part of the Order)

Article 2(1) of this Order provides for the names and areas of the 14 Assembly constituencies for the purposes of the election of the constituency members of the London Assembly, as specified in columns (1) and (2) of the Table. (The other 11 members of the London Assembly are to be members for the whole of Greater London. The London Assembly and the Mayor of London together constitute the Greater London Authority.)

Article 2(2) provides that the returning officers at elections of constituency members of the London Assembly shall be the persons who are for the time being the returning officers at other local government elections in the boroughs listed in column (3) of the Table.

(1)

1999 c. 29, The Order gives effect (without modification) to recommendations contained in a report submitted by the Local Government Commission under section 7 of the Greater London Authority (Referendum) Act 1998 (c. 3) (report of recommendations about electoral areas etc.).

(2)

Section 35(2B) is inserted by the Greater London Authority Act 1999, Schedule 3, paragraph 3.

(3)

See the definition of “local government election” in section 203(1) of the Representation of the People Act 1983, and also section 203(2) of that Act. Relevant amendments are made by the Greater London Authority Act 1999, Schedule 3, paragraph 25.

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