- Statutory Instrument 2004 No. 2819
The County of Surrey (Electoral Changes) Order 2004
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| Made | 28th October 2004 | ||
| Coming into force in accordance with article 1(2) and 1(3) |
Whereas the Local Government Commission for England, acting pursuant to section 15(4) of the Local Government Act 1992[1], has submitted to the Secretary of State recommendations dated August 2000 on its review of the county of Surrey:
And whereas the Electoral Commission[2] have decided to give effect, with modifications, to those recommendations:
And whereas a period of not less than six weeks has expired since the receipt of those recommendations:
Now, therefore, the Electoral Commission, in exercise of the powers conferred on them by sections 17[3] and 26[4] of the Local Government Act 1992, and of all other powers enabling them in that behalf, hereby make the following Order:
Citation and commencement
1. - (1) This Order may be cited as the County of Surrey (Electoral Changes) Order 2004.
(2) This Order, with the exception of articles 4 and 5, shall come into force -
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(a) for the purpose of proceedings preliminary or relating to any election to be held on the ordinary day of election of councillors in 2005, on the day after that on which it is made;
(b) for all other purposes, on the ordinary day of election of councillors in 2005.
(3) Articles 4 and 5 shall come into force -
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(a) for the purpose of proceedings preliminary or relating to the election of a parish councillor for the parishes of Godalming and Windlesham to be held on the ordinary day of elections in 2007, on 15th October 2006;
(b) for all other purposes, on the ordinary day of elections in 2007.
Interpretation
2.
In this Order -
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"county" means the county of Surrey;
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"existing", in relation to an electoral division or ward, means the electoral division or ward as it exists on the date this Order is made;
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references to wards, unless the context otherwise requires, are references to district and borough wards in the county[5];
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any reference to the map is a reference to the map marked "Map referred to in the County of Surrey (Electoral Changes) Order 2004", of which prints are available for inspection at -
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(a) the principal office of the Electoral Commission; and
(b) the offices of Surrey County Council; and
any reference to a numbered sheet is a reference to the sheet of the map which bears that number.
Electoral divisions of the county of Surrey
3.
- (1) The existing electoral divisions of the county[6] shall be abolished.
(2) The county shall be divided into eighty electoral divisions which shall bear the names set out in column (1) of the Schedule.
(3) The electoral divisions shall comprise the areas described in column (2) of the Schedule by reference to wards, parishes, or parish wards or, where an area is not so described, the area designated on the map by reference to the name of the electoral division and demarcated by red lines; and the number of councillors to be elected for each electoral division shall be one.
(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.
Wards of the parish of Godalming
4.
- (1) The existing wards of the parish of Godalming shall be abolished.
(2) The parish shall be divided into six parish wards which shall bear the names Godalming Binscombe, Godalming Central, Godalming Charterhouse, Godalming Farncombe and Catteshall, Godalming Holloway, and Godalming Ockford; and the wards shall comprise the areas designated on sheet 6 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 Godalming Binscombe, Godalming Charterhouse, Godalming Farncombe and Catteshall, and Godalming Holloway parish wards shall be four, and for each of the Godalming Central and Godalming Ockford parish wards shall be two.
Wards of the parish of Windlesham
5.
- (1) The existing wards of the parish of Windlesham shall be abolished.
(2) The parish shall be divided into four parish wards which shall bear the names Bagshot, Lightwater East, Lightwater West and Windlesham; and the wards shall comprise the areas designated on sheet 5 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 Bagshot and Windlesham parish wards shall be six, for the Lightwater East parish ward shall be four, and for the Lightwater West parish ward shall be two.
Maps
6.
Surrey County Council shall make a print of the map marked "Map referred to in the County of Surrey (Electoral Changes) Order 2004" available for inspection at its offices by any member of the public at any reasonable time.
Electoral registers
7.
The Electoral Registration Officer[7] for each district or borough in the county shall make such rearrangement of, or adaptation of, the register of local government electors as may be necessary for the purposes of, and in consequence of, this Order.
Revocation
8.
The County of Surrey (Electoral Arrangements) Order (1980)[8] is revoked, save for article 5.
Sealed with the seal of the Electoral Commission on the
28th day of October 2004
L.S.
Sam Younger
Chairman of the Commission
28th October 2004
Jacqui Dixon
Secretary to the Commission
28th October 2004
| Column (1) | Column (2) | |
| Name of Electoral Division | Area of Electoral Division | |
| In the borough of Elmbridge | ||
| Cobham | ||
| East Molesey and Esher | Esher ward; Molesey East ward | |
| Hersham | Hersham North ward; Hersham South ward | |
| Hinchley Wood, Claygate and Oxshott | ||
| The Dittons | Long Ditton ward; Thames Ditton ward; Weston Green ward | |
| Walton | ||
| Walton South and Oatlands | ||
| West Molesey | Molesey North ward; Molesey South ward | |
| Weybridge | St George's Hill ward; Weybridge North ward; Weybridge South ward | |
| In the borough of Epsom and Ewell | ||
| Epsom and Ewell North | Auriol ward; Cuddington ward; Ewell Court ward | |
| Epsom and Ewell North East | ||
| Epsom and Ewell South East | ||
| Epsom and Ewell South West | ||
| Epsom and Ewell West | ||
| In the borough of Guildford | ||
| Ash | Ash Vale ward; Ash Wharf ward | |
| Guildford East | Burpham ward; Merrow ward | |
| Guildford North | Stoke ward; Stoughton ward | |
| Guildford South East | Christchurch ward; Holy Trinity ward | |
| Guildford South West | ||
| Guildford West | ||
| Horsleys | Effingham ward; Lovelace ward; East Horsley parish; West Horsley parish | |
| Shalford | Ash South and Tongham ward; Pilgrims ward; Artington parish; Compton parish; Peasmarsh and Shalford parish wards of Shalford parish | |
| Shere | Send ward; Tillingbourne ward; East Clandon parish; West Clandon parish; Chilworth parish ward of Shalford parish | |
| Worplesdon | Normandy ward; Pirbright ward; Worplesdon ward | |
| In the district of Mole Valley | ||
| Ashtead | Ashtead Common ward; Ashtead Park ward; Ashtead Village ward | |
| Bookham and Fetcham West | Bookham North ward; Bookham South ward; Fetcham West ward | |
| Dorking and the Holmwoods | Dorking South ward; Holmwoods ward | |
| Dorking Hills | Box Hill and Headley ward; Dorking North ward; Leith Hill ward; Mickleham, Westhumble and Pixham ward; Westcott ward | |
| Dorking Rural | Beare Green ward; Brockham, Betchworth and Buckland ward; Capel, Leigh and Newdigate ward; Charlwood ward; Okewood ward | |
| Leatherhead and Fetcham East | Fetcham East ward; Leatherhead North ward; Leatherhead South ward | |
| In the borough of Reigate and Banstead | ||
| Banstead East | Banstead Village ward; Chipstead, Hooley and Woodmansterne ward | |
| Banstead South | Kingswood with Burgh Heath ward; Preston ward; Tadworth and Walton ward | |
| Banstead West | Nork ward; Tattenhams ward | |
| Earlswood and Reigate South | Earlswood and Whitebushes ward; South Park and Woodhatch ward | |
| Horley East | Horley Central ward; Horley East ward | |
| Horley West | Horley West ward; Salfords and Sidlow ward | |
| Merstham and Reigate Hill | Merstham ward; Reigate Hill ward | |
| Redhill | Redhill East ward; Redhill West ward | |
| Reigate Central | Meadvale and St John's ward; Reigate Central ward | |
| In the borough of Runnymede | ||
| Addlestone | ||
| Chertsey | ||
| Egham Hythe and Thorpe | ||
| Englefield Green | ||
| Foxhills and Virginia Water | Foxhills ward; Virginia Water ward | |
| Woodham and New Haw | New Haw ward; Woodham ward | |
| In the borough of Spelthorne | ||
| Ashford | ||
| Laleham and Shepperton | ||
| Lower Sunbury and Halliford | Halliford and Sunbury West ward; Sunbury East ward | |
| Staines | ||
| Staines South and Ashford West | ||
| Stanwell and Stanwell Moor | ||
| Sunbury Common and Ashford Common | ||
| In the borough of Surrey Heath | ||
| Bisley, Chobham and West End | ||
| Camberley East | Old Dean ward; St Pauls ward; Town ward | |
| Camberley West | Frimley ward; St Michaels ward; Watchetts ward | |
| Frimley Green and Mytchett | Frimley Green ward; Mytchett and Deepcut ward | |
| Heatherside and Parkside | Heatherside ward; Parkside ward | |
| Windlesham | ||
| In the district of Tandridge | ||
| Caterham Hill | Chaldon ward; Portley ward; Queens Park ward; Westway ward | |
| Caterham Valley | Harestone ward; Valley ward; Whyteleafe ward; Woldingham ward | |
| Godstone | Bletchingley and Nutfield ward; Godstone ward | |
| Lingfield | Burstow, Horne and Outwood ward; Dormansland and Felcourt ward; Felbridge ward; Lingfield and Crowhurst ward | |
| Oxted | Limpsfield ward; Oxted North and Tandridge ward; Oxted South ward | |
| Warlingham | Tatsfield and Titsey ward; Warlingham East and Chelsham and Farleigh ward; Warlingham West ward | |
| In the borough of Waverley | ||
| Cranleigh and Ewhurst | Cranleigh East ward; Cranleigh West ward; Ewhurst ward; Cranleigh North, Cranleigh Rural and Elmbridge parish wards of Cranleigh parish; Ellens Green parish ward of Ewhurst parish | |
| Farnham Central | Farnham Castle ward; Farnham Firgrove ward; Farnham Moor Park ward | |
| Farnham North | Farnham Hale and Heath End ward; Farnham Upper Hale ward; Farnham Weybourne and Badshot Lea ward | |
| Farnham South | Farnham Bourne ward; Farnham Shortheath and Boundstone ward; Farnham Wrecclesham and Rowledge ward | |
| Godalming North | ||
| Godalming South, Milford and Witley | ||
| Haslemere | Haslemere Critchmere and Shottermill ward; Haslemere East and Grayswood ward | |
| Waverley Eastern Villages | Blackheath and Wonersh ward; Bramley, Busbridge and Hascombe ward; Chiddingfold and Dunsfold ward; Alfold parish; Hambledon parish; Shamley Green parish ward of Wonersh parish | |
| Waverley Western Villages | Elstead and Thursley ward; Frensham, Dockenfield and Tilford ward; Hindhead ward | |
| In the borough of Woking | ||
| Horsell | Horsell East and Woodham ward; Horsell West ward | |
| Knaphill | Goldsworth West ward; Knaphill ward | |
| Pyrford | Mount Hermon East ward; Old Woking ward; Pyrford ward | |
| St Johns and Brookwood | Brookwood ward; Hermitage and Knaphill South ward; St John's and Hook Heath ward | |
| The Byfleets | Byfleet ward; West Byfleet ward | |
| Woking Central | Goldsworth East ward; Maybury and Sheerwater ward | |
| Woking South | Kingfield and Westfield ward; Mayford and Sutton Green ward; Mount Hermon West ward | |
(This note is not part of the Order)
This Order gives effect, with modifications, to recommendations by the Local Government Commission for England for electoral changes in the county of Surrey. The recommendations were submitted to the Secretary of State, but the functions of the Secretary of State under sections 13 to 15 and 17 of the Local Government Act 1992 so far as they relate to electoral changes were transferred with modifications to the Electoral Commission under the Local Government Commission for England (Transfer of Functions) Order 2001 (S.I. 2001/3962), with effect from 1st April 2002. That Order provides that recommendations submitted to the Secretary of State before 1st April 2002 would have effect as if they had been submitted to the Electoral Commission.
The modifications concern the names of East Molesey and Esher, Lower Sunbury and Halliford, The Byfleets, and West Molesey electoral divisions and the boundary between Guildford South West and Guildford West electoral divisions.
The changes have effect in relation to local government elections to be held on and after the ordinary day of election of councillors in 2005.
Article 3 abolishes the existing electoral divisions of the county and provides for the creation of 80 new electoral divisions. That article and the Schedule also make provision for the names and areas of, and numbers of councillors for, the new electoral divisions. The number of councillors for each electoral division shall be one.
Articles 4 and 5 make electoral changes in the parishes of Godalming and Windlesham.
Article 7 obliges the Electoral Registration Officer in each district or borough in the county of Surrey to make any necessary amendments to the electoral register for that district or borough to reflect the new electoral arrangements.
Article 8 revokes the County of Surrey (Electoral Arrangements) Order 1980, with the exception of article 5.
The areas of the new electoral divisions and of the new parish wards of the parishes of Godalming and Windlesham are demarcated on the map described in article 2. Prints of the map may be inspected at all reasonable times at the offices of Surrey County Council and at the principal office of the Electoral Commission at Trevelyan House, Great Peter Street, London SW1P 2HW.
Notes:
[1] 1992 c. 19. This section has been amended by the Local Government Commission for England (Transfer of Functions) Order 2001 (S.I. 2001/2962).back
[2] The Electoral Commission was established by the Political Parties, Elections and Referendums Act 2000 (c. 41). The functions of the Secretary of State, under sections 13 to 15 and 17 of the Local Government Act 1992 (c. 19), to the extent that they relate to electoral changes within the meaning of that Act, were transferred with modifications to the Electoral Commission on 1st April 2002 (S.I. 2001/3962).back
[3] This section has been amended by section 89(3) of the Local Government Act 2000 (c. 22), S.I. 2001/3962 and also otherwise in ways not relevant to this Order.back
[4] This section has been amended by S.I. 2001/3962.back
[5] See the Borough of Elmbridge (Electoral Changes) Order 1999 (S.I. 1999/2465), the Borough of Epsom and Ewell (Electoral Changes) Order 1999 (S.I. 1999/2474), the Borough of Guildford (Electoral Changes) Order 1999 (S.I. 1999/2475), the District of Mole Valley (Electoral Changes) Order 1999 (S.I. 1999/2476), the Borough of Reigate and Banstead (Electoral Changes) Order 1999 (S.I. 1999/2477), the Borough of Runnymede (Electoral Changes) Order 1999 (S.I. 1999/2478), the Borough of Spelthorne (Electoral Changes) Order 1999 (S.I. 1999/2479), the Borough of Surrey Heath (Electoral Changes) Order 1999 (S.I. 1999/2481), the District of Tandridge (Electoral Changes) Order (S.I. 1999/2480), the Borough of Waverley (Electoral Changes) Order 1999 (S.I. 1999/2482), as amended by the Borough of Waverley (Electoral Changes) (Amendment) Order 2000 (S.I. 2000/3366), and the Borough of Woking (Electoral Changes) Order 1999 (S.I. 1999/2483).back
[6] See the County of Surrey (Electoral Arrangements) Order 1980 (S.I. 1980/1830). The area of the county of Surrey was altered by the Berkshire, Buckinghamshire, Hampshire, Oxfordshire and Surrey (County Boundaries) Order 1991 (S.I. 1991/264), the Hampshire and Surrey (County Boundaries) Order 1991 (S.I. 1991/2494), the Surrey and West Sussex (County Boundaries) Order 1992 (S.I. 1992/2093), the Greater London, Kent and Surrey (County Boundaries) Order 1993 (S.I. 1993/400), the Greater London and Surrey (County and London Borough Boundaries) Order 1993 (S.I. 1993/1148), the Greater London and Surrey (County and London Borough Boundaries) (No. 2) Order 1993 (S.I. 1993/1208), the Greater London and Surrey (County and London Borough Boundaries) (No. 3) Order 1993 (S.I. 1993/1319), the Heathrow Airport (County and London Borough Boundaries) Order 1993 (S.I. 1993/1342), the Greater London and Surrey (County and London Borough Boundaries) (No. 4) Order 1993 (S.I. 1993/1391), the Berkshire, Buckinghamshire and Surrey (County Boundaries) Order 1994 (S.I. 1994/330), and the Greater London and Surrey (County and London Borough Boundaries) Order 1994 (S.I. 1994/331) to which there are amendments not relevant to this Order.back
[7] As to electoral registration officers and the register of local government electors, see sections 8 to 13 of the Representation of the People Act 1983 (c. 2).back
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