The Borough of Wigan (Electoral Changes) (Amendment) Order 2005

Made29th September 2005

Coming into force in accordance with article 1(2)

The Electoral Commission1, in exercise of the powers conferred upon them by sections 172 and 263 of the Local Government Act 1992, hereby make the following Order:

Citation and commencement1

1

This Order may be cited as the Borough of Wigan (Electoral Changes) (Amendment) Order 2005.

2

This Order shall come into force on the day after that on which it is made.

Amendment to the 2004 Order2

1

The Borough of Wigan (Electoral Changes) Order 20044 shall be amended as follows:

2

In article 2 “any reference to the map is a reference to the map marked “Revised (2005) Map referred to in the Borough of Wigan (Electoral Changes) Order 2004”, of which prints are available” shall be substituted for the words from “any reference to the map” to “of which prints are available”.

3

In article 5 “the map marked “Revised (2005) Map referred to in the Borough of Wigan (Electoral Changes) Order 2004” available for inspection” shall be substituted for the words from “the map marked” to “available for inspection”.

Sealed with the seal of the Electoral Commission on the 29th day of September 2005

Sam YoungerChairman of the Commission29th September 2005

Jacqui DixonSecretary to the Commission29th September 2005

(This note is not part of the Order)

This Order substitutes a new map for that originally referred to in the Borough of Wigan (Electoral Changes) Order 2004, in order to give full effect to recommendations by the Boundary Committee for England, a committee of the Electoral Commission, for electoral changes in the borough of Wigan.

Prints of the map may be inspected at all reasonable times at the offices of Wigan Metropolitan Borough Council and at the principal office of the Electoral Commission at Trevelyan House, Great Peter Street, London SW1P 2HW or may be viewed on the Boundary Committee for England’s website at www.boundarycommittee.org.uk/your-area/wigan.cfm.