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(1) This Order may be cited as the City of Durham (Electoral Changes) Order 1999.
(2) This Order shall come into force–
(a) for the purpose of proceedings preliminary or relating to elections to be held on 1st May 2003, on 10th October 2002;
(b) for all other purposes, on 1st May 2003.
(3) In this Order–
 “city” means the city of Durham;
 “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 of the Environment, Transport and the Regions marked “Map of the City of Durham (Electoral Changes) Order 1999”, and deposited in accordance with regulation 27 of the Local Government Changes for England Regulations 1994; and
 any reference to a numbered sheet is a reference to the sheet of the map which bears that number.
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(1) The existing wards of the city shall be abolished.
(2) The city shall be divided into twenty 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 to parishes and parish wards 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 the Schedule.
(4) Where a boundary is shown on the map as running along a road, railway line, footway, waterway or 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 Belmont shall be abolished.
(2) The parish shall be divided into three parish wards which shall bear the names Belmont, Carrville and Gilesgate Moor; and the wards shall comprise the areas designated on sheet 2 by reference to the name of the ward and demarcated by orange lines.
(3) The number of councillors to be elected for each parish ward shall be five.
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The City of Durham (Electoral Arrangements) Order 1978 is hereby revoked.
Signed by authority of the Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions
Beverley Hughes
Parliamentary Under Secretary of State,
Department of the Environment, Transport and the Regions
7th September 1999
SCHEDULE
Article 2


(1) (2) (3)
Name of Ward Area of Ward Number of Councillors
Bearpark and Witton Gilbert The parishes of Bearpark and Witton Gilbert 3
Belmont  2
Brancepeth, Langley Moor and Meadowfield The parish of Brancepeth and the parish wards of East and South of the parish of Brandon & Byshottles 2
Brandon The parish ward of Central of the parish of Brandon & Byshottles 3
Carrville and Gilesgate Moor  3
Cassop-cum-Quarrington The parishes of Cassop-cum-Quarrington and Croxdale & Hett 3
Coxhoe The parishes of Coxhoe and Kelloe 3
Crossgate and Framwelgate  3
Deerness The parish ward of West of the parish of Brandon & Byshottles 2
Elvet  3
Framwellgate Moor  3
Neville’s Cross  2
New Brancepeth and Ushaw Moor The parish wards of North and Ushaw Moor of the parish of Brandon & Byshottles 3
Newton Hall North  2
Newton Hall South  2
Pelaw and Gilesgate  3
Pittington and West Rainton The parishes of Pittington and West Rainton 2
St Nicholas  2
Shadforth and Sherburn The parish of Sherburn and the parish wards of Ludworth, Shadforth and Sherburn Hill of the parish of Shadforth 3
Shincliffe The parish of Shincliffe 1