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(1) This Order may be cited as the District of South Northamptonshire (Electoral Changes) Order 1998.
(2) This Order shall come into force for all purposes on 6th May 1999, except that for the purpose of all proceedings preliminary or relating to an election to be held on or after that date this Order shall come into force on 10th October 1998.
(3) In this Order–
 “the district” means the district of South Northamptonshire;
 “existing”, in relation to a ward, means the ward as it exists on the date this Order is made; and
 any reference to “the map” is a reference to the map prepared by the Department of the Environment, Transport and the Regions, marked “Map of the District of South Northamptonshire (Electoral Changes) Order 1998”, and deposited in accordance with regulation 27 of the Local Government Changes for England Regulations 1994.
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(1) The existing wards of the district shall be abolished.
(2) The district shall be divided into thirty-one wards which shall bear the names set out in column (1) of Schedule 1.
(3) The wards shall comprise the areas described in column (2) of that Schedule by reference to parishes, or, where no area is 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 that Schedule.
(4) Where a boundary is shown on the map as running along a road, railway line, footway, waterway or other similar geographical feature, it shall be treated as running along the centre line of the feature.
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(1) The existing wards of the parish of Brackley shall be abolished.
(2) The parish shall be divided into three parish wards which shall bear the names set out in column (1) of Schedule 2; each parish ward shall comprise the area of the district ward specified in respect of that parish ward in column (2) of that Schedule and the number of councillors to be elected for each parish ward shall be five.
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The parish shall be divided into two parish wards which shall bear the names set out in column (1) of Schedule 3; each parish ward shall comprise the area of the district ward specified in respect of that parish ward in column (2) of that Schedule and the number of councillors to be elected for each parish ward shall be eight.
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The District of South Northamptonshire (Electoral Arrangements) Order 1976 is hereby revoked.
Signed by authority of the Secretary of State
Hilary Armstrong
Minister of State,
Department of the Environment, Transport and the Regions
8th October 1998
SCHEDULE 1
Article 2


(1) (2) (3)
Name of ward Areas of ward Number of councillors
Astwell The parishes of Helmdon, Radstone, Syresham and Whitfield 1
Blakesley The parishes of Adstone, Blakesley, Cold Higham, Litchborough, Maidford, Slapton and Woodend 1
Blisworth The parish of Blisworth 1
Brackley East  2
Brackley South  2
Brackley West  2
Chase The parishes of Brafield-on-the-Green, Hackleton, Little Houghton and Quinton 2
Cogenhoe The parish of Cogenhoe and Whiston 1
Cosgrove The parishes of Cosgrove and Old Stratford 1
Cote The parishes of Pattishall and Tiffield 1
Courteenhall The parishes of Courteenhall, Milton Malsor and Roade 2
Deanshanger The parishes of Deanshanger and Wicken 2
Downs The parishes of Bugbrooke and Gayton 2
Grafton The parishes of Ashton, Grafton Regis and Yardley Gobion 1
Grange The parishes of Kislingbury and Rothersthorpe 1
Harpole The parish of Harpole 1
Heyford The parishes of Nether Heyford and Upper Heyford 1
Kings Sutton The parish of Kings Sutton 1
Kingthorn The parishes of Bradden and Greens Norton 1
Little Brook The parishes of Aynho, Croughton and Evenley 1
Middleton Cheney The parishes of Middleton Cheney and Warkworth 2
Salcey The parish of Hartwell 1
Silverstone The parish of Silverstone 1
Steane The parishes of Farthinghoe, Greatworth, Hinton-in-the Hedges and Newbottle 1
Tove The parishes of Paulerspury, Shutlanger and Stoke Bruerne 1
Towcester Brook  2
Towcester Mill  2
Wardoun The parishes of Aston le Walls, Boddington, Chacombe, Chipping Warden, Culworth, Edgcote, Eydon, Marston St Lawrence, Thenford and Thorpe Mandeville 2
Washington The parishes of Abthorpe, Moreton Pinkney, Sulgrave, Wappenham and Weston and Weedon 1
Whittlewood The parishes of Potterspury and Whittlebury 1
Yardley The parishes of Castle Ashby, Denton and Yardley Hastings 1
SCHEDULE 2
Article 3


(1) (2)
Name of ward Description of area
East The Brackley East ward
West The Brackley West ward
South The Brackley South ward
SCHEDULE 3
Article 4


(1) (2)
Name of ward Description of area
Brook The Towcester Brook district ward
Mill Such part of the parish of Towcester as is within the Towcester Mill ward