The Isle of Wight (Electoral Changes) Order 2000

Explanatory Note

(This note is not part of the Order)

This Order revokes and replaces the Isle of Wight (Electoral Changes) Order 1999 (“the 1999 Order”) which will not now come into force. There are no substantive changes from the 1999 Order. The purpose of making the new Order is to secure the correction of boundaries of county divisions recorded incorrectly on the map referred to in the 1999 Order.

The Order gives effect, subject to modifications, to recommendations by the Local Government Commission for England. The modifications relate to wards of the parish of East Cowes recommended by the Isle of Wight Council as a consequence of alterations to the county divisions. The changes have effect in relation to local government elections to be held on and after 3rd May 2001.

Article 2 abolishes the existing divisions of the county and provides for the creation of 48 new divisions. That article and Schedule 1 also make provision for the names and areas of the new divisions.

Articles 3 to 11 make electoral changes in the parishes of Bembridge, Cowes, East Cowes, Lake, Sandown, Shanklin, Shorwell, Ventnor (to which Schedule 2 is also relevant) and Yarmouth.

Article 12 revokes the 1999 Order and article 5(3) of the Isle of Wight (Structural Change) Order 1994 which established the existing county divisions.

The areas of the new county divisions and parish wards are demarcated on the map described in article 1(4). Prints of the map may be inspected at all reasonable times at the offices of the Isle of Wight 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.