Electoral divisions of the county of Essex
3.—(1) The existing electoral divisions of the county(1) shall be abolished.
(2) The county shall be divided into seventy electoral divisions which shall bear the names set out in column (1) of the Schedule.
(3) The electoral divisions shall comprise the areas described in column (2) of the Schedule by reference to wards, parishes, or parish wards or, where an area is not so described, the area designated on the map by reference to the name of the electoral division and demarcated by red lines; and the number of councillors to be elected for each electoral division shall be the number specified in respect of the electoral division 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.
See the County of Essex (Electoral Arrangements) Order 1981 (S.I. 1981/141). The area of the county of Essex was altered by the Cambridgeshire, Essex, Hertfordshire and Lincolnshire (County Boundaries) Order 1989 (S.I. 1989/133), the Essex and Suffolk (County Boundaries) Order 1989 (S.I. 1989/2352), the Essex and Hertfordshire (County Boundaries) Order 1992 (S.I. 1992/2119), the Essex, Greater London and Hertfordshire (County and London Borough Boundaries) Order 1993 (S.I. 1993/441), the Essex and Greater London (County and London Borough Boundaries) Order 1993 (S.I. 1993/1141), the Essex and Greater London (County and London Borough Boundaries) (No.2) Order 1993 (S.I. 1993/1218), the Essex and Greater London (County Boundaries) Order 1993 (S.I. 1993/2091), and the Essex (Boroughs of Colchester, Southend-on-Sea and Thurrock and District of Tendring) (Structural, Boundary and Electoral Changes) Order 1996 (S.I. 1996/1875).