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(1) This Order may be cited as the City of York (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—
 “city” means the city of York;
 “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 for Transport, Local Government and the Regions marked “Map of the City of York (Electoral Changes) Order 2001”, 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-two 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 city of York 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 fourth 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 retire.
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(1) The existing wards of the parish of Haxby shall be abolished.
(2) The parish shall be divided into four parish wards which shall bear the names Haxby Central, Haxby East, Haxby North and Haxby South West; and the wards shall comprise the areas designated on sheet 3 by reference to the name of the ward and demarcated by orange lines.
(3) The number of councillors to be elected for each of the Haxby Central and Haxby East parish wards shall be four, and for each of the Haxby North and Haxby South West parish wards shall be three.
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The City of York (Electoral Arrangements) Order 1976 and article 6 of the North Yorkshire (District of York) (Structural and Boundary Changes) Order 1995 are 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
4th October 2001
SCHEDULE 1
Article 2


(1) (2) (3)
Name of ward Area of ward Number of Councillors
Acomb  2
Bishopthorpe  1
Clifton  3
Derwent The parishes of Dunnington, Holtby and Kexby 1
Dringhouses and Woodthorpe  3
Fishergate  2
Fulford The parish of Fulford 1
Guildhall  2
Haxby and Wigginton The parishes of Haxby and Wigginton 3
Heslington The parish of Heslington 1
Heworth  3
Heworth Without  1
Holgate  3
Hull Road  2
Huntington and New Earswick The parishes of Huntington and New Earswick 3
Micklegate  3
Osbaldwick The parishes of Murton and Osbaldwick 1
Rural West York The parishes of Askham Bryan, Askham Richard, Copmanthorpe, Hessay, Nether Poppleton, Rufforth and Upper Poppleton 3
Skelton, Rawcliffe and Clifton Without The parishes of Clifton (Without), Rawcliffe and Skelton 3
Strensall The parishes of Earswick, Stockton-on-the-Forest, Strensall and Towthorpe 2
Westfield  3
Wheldrake The parishes of Deighton, Elvington, Naburn and Wheldrake 1