3. –
(1) For the purposes of local government, Northern Ireland shall be divided into 7 districts (to be known as “local government districts”).
(2) The 7 local government districts shall incorporate, respectively, the whole or the major part of the following former local government districts—
1.Antrim; Carrickfergus; Lisburn City; Newtownabbey.
2.Ards; Castlereagh; Down; North Down.
3.Armagh City and District; Banbridge; Craigavon; Newry and Mourne.
4.Ballymena; Ballymoney; Coleraine; Larne; Moyle.
5.Belfast.
6.Cookstown; Dungannon and South Tyrone Borough; Fermanagh; Omagh.
7.Derry; Limavady; Magherafelt; Strabane.
(3) Each local government district shall be divided into wards.
(4) The boundaries and names of the local government districts and the number, boundaries and names of the wards into which each of those districts is divided shall be such as are prescribed by an order made under section 50(10) of the principal Act.
(5) Reference in paragraph (2) to a former local government district is to that district as constituted on the date on which this Order is made.
Commencement Information
I1Art. 3 partly in operation; art. 3 in operation for certain purposes at 17.5.2006 see art. 1(2)(3); art. 3 in operation for certain purposes at 12.3.2007 by S.R. 2007/159, art. 2