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(1) This Order may be cited as the Borough of Wyre (Electoral Changes) Order 2001.
(2) This Order shall come into force—
(a) for the purpose of proceedings preliminary or relating to any election to be held on 1st May 2003, on 15th October 2002;
(b) for all other purposes, on 1st May 2003.
(3) In this Order—
 “borough” means the borough of Wyre;
 “existing”, in relation to a ward, means the ward as it exists on the date this Order is made; andany reference to the map is a reference to the map prepared by the Department for Transport, Local Government and the Regions marked “Map of the Borough of Wyre (Electoral Changes) Order 2001”, 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 borough shall be abolished.
(2) The borough shall be divided into twenty-six 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, where an area is not 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, watercourse or similar geographical feature, it shall be treated as running along the centre line of the feature.
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(1) The ordinary elections of all councillors of the borough of Wyre shall be held simultaneously on the ordinary day of election of non-metropolitan district councillors in 2003 and every fourth year after 2003.
(2) The term of office of councillors shall be four years; and all councillors shall retire on the day after the ordinary day of election of councillors in the year of retirement and the newly-elected councillors shall come into office on the day on which their predecessors retired.
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The number of parish councillors to be elected for the parish of Catterall shall be ten.
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The Borough of Wyre (Electoral Arrangements) Order 1976 is hereby revoked.
Signed by authority of the Secretary of State for Transport, Local Government and the Regions
Alan Whitehead
Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State,
Department for Transport, Local Government and the Regions
3rd July 2001
SCHEDULE
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(1) (2) (3)
Name of Ward Area of Ward Number of Councillors
Bourne  3
Breck  2
Brock The parishes of Bilsborrow, Claughton and Myerscough 1
Calder The parish of Barnacre-with-Bonds 1
Carleton  2
Catterall The parishes of Catterall and Kirkland 1
Cleveleys Park  3
Cabus The parish of Cabus 1
Garstang The parishes of Garstang and Nateby 3
Great Eccleston The parishes of Great Eccleston, Inskip-with-Sowerby, Out Rawcliffe and Upper Rawcliffe-with-Tarnacre 2
Hambleton and Stalmine-with-Staynall The parishes of Hambleton and Stalmine-with-Staynall 2
Hardhorn  2
High Cross  2
Jubilee  2
Mount  2
Norcross  2
Park  2
Pharos  3
Pilling The parishes of Pilling and Winmarleigh 1
Preesall The parish of Preesall 3
Rossall  3
Staina  3
Tithebarn  2
Victoria  3
Warren  3
Wyresdale The parishes of Bleasdale, Nether Wyresdale and Forton 1