The City of York (Electoral Changes) Order 2001

Statutory Instruments

2001 No. 3362

LOCAL GOVERNMENT, ENGLAND

The City of York (Electoral Changes) Order 2001

Made

4th October 2001

Coming into force in accordance with article 1(2)

Whereas the Local Government Commission for England, acting pursuant to section 15(4) of the Local Government Act 1992(1), has submitted to the Secretary of State a report dated May 2001 on its review of the city(2) of York together with its recommendations:

And whereas the Secretary of State has decided to give effect, subject to one modification, to those recommendations:

Now, therefore, the Secretary of State, in exercise of the powers conferred on him by sections 17(3) and 26 of the Local Government Act 1992, and of all other powers enabling him in that behalf, hereby makes the following Order:

Citation, commencement and interpretation

1.—(1) This Order may be cited as the City of York (Electoral Changes) Order 2001.

(2) This Order shall come into force—

(a) for the purpose of proceedings preliminary or relating to any election to be held on 1st May 2003, on 15th October 2002;

(b) for all other purposes, on 1st May 2003.

(3) In this Order—

“city” means the city of York;

“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 for Transport, Local Government and the Regions marked “Map of the City of York (Electoral Changes) Order 2001”, and deposited in accordance with regulation 27 of the Local Government Changes for England Regulations 1994(4); and

• any reference to a numbered sheet is a reference to the sheet of the map which bears that number.

Wards of the city of York

2.—(1) The existing wards of the city(5) shall be abolished.

(2) The city shall be divided into twenty-two 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, where an area is not 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, watercourse or similar geographical feature, it shall be treated as running along the centre line of the feature.

Elections of the council of York

3.—(1) The ordinary elections of all councillors of the city of York shall be held simultaneously on the ordinary day of election of non-metropolitan district councillors in 2003(6) and every fourth year after 2003.

(2) The term of office of councillors shall be four years; and all councillors shall retire on the fourth day after the ordinary day of election of councillors in the year of retirement and the newly-elected councillors shall come into office on the day on which their predecessors retire.

Wards of the parish of Haxby

4.—(1) The existing wards of the parish of Haxby shall be abolished.

(2) The parish shall be divided into four parish wards which shall bear the names Haxby Central, Haxby East, Haxby North and Haxby South West; and the wards shall comprise the areas designated on sheet 3 by reference to the name of the ward and demarcated by orange lines.

(3) The number of councillors to be elected for each of the Haxby Central and Haxby East parish wards shall be four, and for each of the Haxby North and Haxby South West parish wards shall be three.

Revocation

5.  The City of York (Electoral Arrangements) Order 1976 and article 6 of the North Yorkshire (District of York) (Structural and Boundary Changes) Order 1995 are hereby revoked.

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

Alan Whitehead

Parliamentary Under Secretary of State,

Department for Transport, Local Government and the Regions

4th October 2001

Article 2

SCHEDULE 1 NAMES AND AREAS OF WARDS AND NUMBERS OF COUNCILLORS

(1)	(2)	(3)
Name of ward	Area of ward	Number of Councillors
Acomb		2
Bishopthorpe		1
Clifton		3
Derwent	The parishes of Dunnington, Holtby and Kexby	1
Dringhouses and Woodthorpe		3
Fishergate		2
Fulford	The parish of Fulford	1
Guildhall		2
Haxby and Wigginton	The parishes of Haxby and Wigginton	3
Heslington	The parish of Heslington	1
Heworth		3
Heworth Without		1
Holgate		3
Hull Road		2
Huntington and New Earswick	The parishes of Huntington and New Earswick	3
Micklegate		3
Osbaldwick	The parishes of Murton and Osbaldwick	1
Rural West York	The parishes of Askham Bryan, Askham Richard, Copmanthorpe, Hessay, Nether Poppleton, Rufforth and Upper Poppleton	3
Skelton, Rawcliffe and Clifton Without	The parishes of Clifton (Without), Rawcliffe and Skelton	3
Strensall	The parishes of Earswick, Stockton-on-the-Forest, Strensall and Towthorpe	2
Westfield		3
Wheldrake	The parishes of Deighton, Elvington, Naburn and Wheldrake	1

Explanatory Note

(This note is not part of the Order)

This Order gives effect, subject to one modification, to recommendations by the Local Government Commission for England for electoral changes in the city of York. The changes have effect in relation to local government elections to be held on and after 1st May 2003.

The modification relates to the name of one of the proposed new wards. The Secretary of State has decided that the ward for which the Commission suggested the name “Tang Hall” should be called “Hull Road”.

Article 2 abolishes the existing wards of the city and provides for the creation of 22 new wards. That article and the Schedule also make provision for the names and areas of, and numbers of councillors for, the new wards.

Article 3 provides for the election of all councillors of the city of York to take place in 2003 and every 4 years after that year.

Article 4 makes electoral changes in the parish of Haxby.

Article 5 revokes the City of York (Electoral Arrangements) Order 1976 and article 6 of the North Yorkshire (District of York) (Structural and Boundary Changes) Order 1995.

The areas of the new city 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 York City Council and at the offices of the Secretary of State for Transport, Local Government and the Regions, 2nd Floor, Ashdown House, 123 Victoria Street, London SW1E 6DE.

(1)

1992 c. 19.

(2)

The non-metropolitan district of York has the status of a city.

(3)

Section 17 is amended by section 39(4) and (5) of the Police and Magistrates' Courts Act 1994 (c. 29).

(4)

S.I. 1994/867, to which there are amendments not relevant to this Order.

(5)

See the City of York (Electoral Arrangements) Order 1976 (S.I. 1976/1968) as amended by the North Yorkshire (District of York) (Structural and Boundary Changes) Order 1995 (S.I. 1995/610).

(6)

For the ordinary day of election of councillors of local government areas, see section 37 of the Representation of the People Act 1983 (c. 2), amended by section 18(2) of the Representation of the People Act 1985 (c. 50) and section 17 of, and paragraphs 1 and 5 of Schedule 3 to, the Greater London Authority Act 1999 (c. 29).