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| Made | 3rd October 2007 | ||
| Coming into force in accordance with article 1(2) |
The Secretary of State makes the following Order in exercise of the powers conferred by sections 24(1)(c) and (e) and 28(1)(b) of the Representation of the People Act 1983[1].
In accordance with section 7(1) and (2)(c) of the Political Parties, Elections and Referendums Act 2000[2], he has consulted the Electoral Commission.
Citation, commencement and interpretation
1. —(1) This Order may be cited as the Returning Officers (Parliamentary Constituencies) (England) Order 2007.
(2) This Order comes into force—
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(a) for the purposes of proceedings preliminary or relating to a parliamentary election to be held after the issue of a proclamation by Her Majesty summoning a new Parliament, on 5th October 2007; and
(b) for all other purposes, on the issue of a proclamation by Her Majesty summoning a new Parliament.
(3) References to constituencies in this Order are references to those constituencies in England constituted by an Order in Council made under section 4 of the Parliamentary Constituencies Act 1986[3].
Revocations
2.
Subject to article 1(2), the following Orders are revoked—
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(a) the Returning Officers (Parliamentary Constituencies) (England) Order 1995[4];
(b) the Returning Officers (Parliamentary Constituencies) (England) (Amendment) Order 1996[5];
(c) the Returning Officers (Parliamentary Constituencies) (England) (Amendment) Order 1997[6]; and
(d) the Returning Officers (Parliamentary Constituencies) (England) (Amendment) Order 1999[7].
Designation of returning officers for borough constituencies
3.
In the case of a borough constituency listed in the left-hand column of Schedule 1 to this Order (being a constituency which is not coterminous with or wholly contained in a district), the returning officer for a parliamentary election shall be the chairman of the council of the district listed in the right-hand column of that Schedule opposite to the name of the constituency.
Designation of returning officers for London borough constituencies
4.
In the case of a borough constituency listed in the left hand column of Schedule 2 to this Order (being a constituency which is situated partly in one London borough and partly in another), the returning officer for a parliamentary election shall be the mayor of the London borough listed in the right-hand column of that Schedule opposite to the name of the constituency.
5.
—(1) Where a London borough council are operating executive arrangements which involve a mayor and cabinet executive or a mayor and council manager executive, article 4 shall have effect as if for the expression "mayor of a London borough" there were substituted "chairman of a London borough".
(2) In this article, "executive arrangements", "mayor and cabinet executive" and "mayor and council manager executive" have the same meaning as in Part 2 of the Local Government Act 2000[8].
Designation of returning officers for county constituencies
6.
In the case of a county constituency listed in the left-hand column of Schedule 3 to this Order (being a constituency which is not coterminous with or wholly contained in a county, as defined by section 38 of the Sheriffs Act 1887[9]), the returning officer for a parliamentary election shall be the chairman of the council of the district listed in the right-hand column of that Schedule opposite to the name of the constituency.
Designation of acting returning officers at parliamentary elections
7.
In the case of a county constituency listed in the left-hand column of Schedule 4 to this Order, the duties of the returning officer for a parliamentary election shall be discharged, as acting returning officer, by the registration officer appointed by the council of the district listed in the right-hand column of that Schedule opposite to the name of the constituency.
Jack Straw
One of Her Majesty's Principal Secretaries of State
Ministry of Justice
3rd October 2007
| Name of borough constituency | District of which chair is returning officer |
| Ashton-under-Lyne | Tameside |
| Blackley and Broughton | Manchester |
| Denton and Reddish | Tameside |
| Wythenshawe and Sale East | Manchester |
| Garston and Halewood | Liverpool |
| St Helens South and Whiston | St Helens |
| Jarrow | South Tyneside |
| Halesowen and Rowley Regis | Dudley |
| Wolverhampton South East | Wolverhampton |
| Luton South | Luton |
| Reading East | Reading |
| Bournemouth West | Bournemouth |
| Kingston upon Hull West and Hessle | Kingston upon Hull |
| Brighton, Kemptown | Brighton and Hove |
| Eastbourne | Eastbourne |
| Aldershot | Rushmoor |
| Gosport | Gosport |
| Broxbourne | Broxbourne |
| Watford | Watford |
| Blackpool North and Cleveleys | Blackpool |
| Hyndburn | Hyndburn |
| Rossendale and Darwen | Rossendale |
| Lincoln | Lincoln |
| Norwich North | Broadland |
| Norwich South | Norwich |
| Stoke-on-Trent North | Stoke-on-Trent |
| Epsom and Ewell | Epsom and Ewell |
| Worthing West | Worthing |
| Name of borough constituency | London borough of which mayor or chair is returning officer |
| Dagenham and Rainham | Barking and Dagenham |
| Erith and Thamesmead | Bexley |
| Hampstead and Kilburn | Camden |
| Lewisham West and Penge | Lewisham |
| Chelsea and Fulham | Hammersmith and Fulham |
| Ruislip, Northwood and Pinner | Hillingdon |
| Richmond Park | Richmond upon Thames |
| Dulwich and West Norwood | Lambeth |
| Chingford and Woodford Green | Waltham Forest |
| Leyton and Wanstead | Waltham Forest |
| Cities of London and Westminster | Westminster |
| Name of county constituency | District of which chair is returning officer |
| Brigg and Goole | North Lincolnshire |
| Rutland and Melton | Melton |
| Name of county constituency | District of which registration officer is acting returning officer |
| Bolton West | Bolton |
| Hazel Grove | Stockport |
| Heywood and Middleton | Rochdale |
| Leigh | Wigan |
| Makerfield | Wigan |
| Oldham East and Saddleworth | Oldham |
| Rochdale | Rochdale |
| Stalybridge and Hyde | Tameside |
| Wigan | Wigan |
| Worsley and Eccles South | Salford |
| Sefton Central | Sefton |
| Wirral South | Wirral |
| Wirral West | Wirral |
| Barnsley East | Barnsley |
| Don Valley | Doncaster |
| Doncaster North | Doncaster |
| Penistone and Stocksbridge | Sheffield |
| Rother Valley | Rotherham |
| Sheffield, Hallam | Sheffield |
| Wentworth and Dearne | Rotherham |
| Meriden | Solihull |
| Calder Valley | Calderdale |
| Colne Valley | Kirklees |
| Dewsbury | Kirklees |
| Elmet and Rothwell | Leeds |
| Hemsworth | Wakefield |
| Keighley | Bradford |
| Morley and Outwood | Leeds |
| Normanton, Pontefract and Castleford | Wakefield |
| Shipley | Bradford |
| Wakefield | Wakefield |
| North East Somerset | Bath and North East Somerset |
| Mid Bedfordshire | Mid Bedfordshire |
| North East Bedfordshire | Bedford |
| South West Bedfordshire | South Bedfordshire |
| Bracknell | Bracknell Forest |
| Maidenhead | Windsor and Maidenhead |
| Newbury | West Berkshire |
| Reading West | Reading |
| Windsor | Windsor and Maidenhead |
| Wokingham | Wokingham |
| Aylesbury | Aylesbury Vale |
| Beaconsfield | South Bucks |
| Buckingham | Aylesbury Vale |
| Chesham and Amersham | Chiltern |
| Wycombe | Wycombe |
| Huntingdon | Huntingdonshire |
| North East Cambridgeshire | Fenland |
| North West Cambridgeshire | Peterborough |
| South Cambridgeshire | South Cambridgeshire |
| South East Cambridgeshire | East Cambridgeshire |
| City of Chester | Chester |
| Congleton | Congleton |
| Crewe and Nantwich | Crewe and Nantwich |
| Eddisbury | Vale Royal |
| Ellesmere Port and Neston | Ellesmere Port |
| Halton | Halton |
| Macclesfield | Macclesfield |
| Tatton | Macclesfield |
| Weaver Vale | Vale Royal |
| Camborne and Redruth | Kerrier |
| North Cornwall | North Cornwall |
| South East Cornwall | Caradon |
| St Austell and Newquay | Restormel |
| St Ives | Penwith |
| Truro and Falmouth | Carrick |
| Barrow and Furness | Barrow-in-Furness |
| Copeland | Copeland |
| Penrith and The Border | Eden |
| Westmorland and Lonsdale | South Lakeland |
| Workington | Allerdale |
| Amber Valley | Amber Valley |
| Bolsover | Bolsover |
| Derbyshire Dales | Derbyshire Dales |
| Erewash | Erewash |
| High Peak | High Peak |
| Mid Derbyshire | Derby |
| North East Derbyshire | North East Derbyshire |
| South Derbyshire | South Derbyshire |
| Central Devon | West Devon |
| East Devon | East Devon |
| Newton Abbot | Teignbridge |
| North Devon | North Devon |
| South West Devon | Plymouth |
| Tiverton and Honiton | Mid Devon |
| Torridge and West Devon | Torridge |
| Totnes | South Hams |
| Christchurch | Christchurch |
| Mid Dorset and North Poole | Poole |
| North Dorset | North Dorset |
| South Dorset | Weymouth and Portland |
| West Dorset | West Dorset |
| Bishop Auckland | Wear Valley |
| City of Durham | City of Durham |
| Easington | Easington |
| North Durham | Chester-le-Street |
| North West Durham | Derwentside |
| Sedgefield | Sedgefield |
| Beverley and Holderness | East Riding of Yorkshire |
| Cleethorpes | North East Lincolnshire |
| East Yorkshire | East Riding of Yorkshire |
| Haltemprice and Howden | East Riding of Yorkshire |
| Scunthorpe | North Lincolnshire |
| Bexhill and Battle | Rother |
| Hastings and Rye | Hastings |
| Lewes | Lewes |
| Wealden | Wealden |
| Braintree | Braintree |
| Brentwood and Ongar | Brentwood |
| Clacton | Tendring |
| Epping Forest | Epping Forest |
| Harlow | Harlow |
| Harwich and North Essex | Colchester |
| Maldon | Maldon |
| Rayleigh and Wickford | Rochford |
| Rochford and Southend East | Southend-on-Sea |
| Saffron Walden | Uttlesford |
| South Basildon and East Thurrock | Basildon |
| Witham | Braintree |
| Forest of Dean | Forest of Dean |
| Stroud | Stroud |
| Tewkesbury | Tewkesbury |
| The Cotswolds | Cotswold |
| East Hampshire | East Hampshire |
| Fareham | Fareham |
| Meon Valley | Winchester |
| New Forest East | New Forest |
| New Forest West | New Forest |
| North East Hampshire | Hart |
| North West Hampshire | Test Valley |
| Romsey and Southampton North | Test Valley |
| Winchester | Winchester |
| Hereford and South Herefordshire | Herefordshire |
| North Herefordshire | Herefordshire |
| Hemel Hempstead | Dacorum |
| Hertford and Stortford | East Hertfordshire |
| Hertsmere | Hertsmere |
| Hitchin and Harpenden | St Albans |
| North East Hertfordshire | North Hertfordshire |
| South West Hertfordshire | Three Rivers |
| St Albans | St Albans |
| Stevenage | Stevenage |
| Welwyn Hatfield | Welwyn Hatfield |
| Isle of Wight | Isle of Wight |
| Ashford | Ashford |
| Canterbury | Canterbury |
| Chatham and Aylesford | Medway |
| Dartford | Dartford |
| Dover | Dover |
| Faversham and Mid Kent | Maidstone |
| Folkestone and Hythe | Shepway |
| Gravesham | Gravesham |
| Maidstone and The Weald | Maidstone |
| North Thanet | Thanet |
| Rochester and Strood | Medway |
| Sevenoaks | Sevenoaks |
| Sittingbourne and Sheppey | Swale |
| South Thanet | Thanet |
| Tonbridge and Malling | Tonbridge and Malling |
| Tunbridge Wells | Tunbridge Wells |
| Chorley | Chorley |
| Fylde | Fylde |
| Lancaster and Fleetwood | Lancaster |
| Morecambe and Lunesdale | Lancaster |
| Ribble Valley | Ribble Valley |
| South Ribble | South Ribble |
| West Lancashire | West Lancashire |
| Wyre and Preston North | Wyre |
| Bosworth | Hinckley and Bosworth |
| Charnwood | Charnwood |
| Harborough | Oadby and Wigston |
| Loughborough | Charnwood |
| North West Leicestershire | North West Leicestershire |
| South Leicestershire | Blaby |
| Boston and Skegness | Boston |
| Gainsborough | West Lindsey |
| Grantham and Stamford | South Kesteven |
| Louth and Horncastle | East Lindsey |
| Sleaford and North Hykeham | North Kesteven |
| South Holland and The Deepings | South Holland |
| Middlesborough South and East Cleveland | Redcar and Cleveland |
| Milton Keynes North | Milton Keynes |
| Broadland | Broadland |
| Great Yarmouth | Great Yarmouth |
| Mid Norfolk | Breckland |
| North Norfolk | North Norfolk |
| North West Norfolk | King's Lynn and West Norfolk |
| South Norfolk | South Norfolk |
| South West Norfolk | King's Lynn and West Norfolk |
| Corby | Corby |
| Daventry | Daventry |
| Kettering | Kettering |
| South Northamptonshire | South Northamptonshire |
| Wellingborough | Wellingborough |
| North Somerset | North Somerset |
| Weston-Super-Mare | North Somerset |
| Berwick-upon-Tweed | Alnwick |
| Hexham | Tynedale |
| Wansbeck | Wansbeck |
| Harrogate and Knaresborough | Harrogate |
| Richmond (Yorks) | Hambleton |
| Scarborough and Whitby | Scarborough |
| Selby and Ainsty | Selby |
| Skipton and Ripon | Craven |
| Thirsk and Malton | Ryedale |
| Ashfield | Ashfield |
| Bassetlaw | Bassetlaw |
| Broxtowe | Broxtowe |
| Gedling | Gedling |
| Mansfield | Mansfield |
| Newark | Newark and Sherwood |
| Rushcliffe | Rushcliffe |
| Sherwood | Newark and Sherwood |
| Banbury | Cherwell |
| Henley | South Oxfordshire |
| Oxford West and Abingdon | Vale of White Horse |
| Wantage | Vale of White Horse |
| Witney | West Oxfordshire |
| Ludlow | South Shropshire |
| North Shropshire | North Shropshire |
| Shrewsbury and Atcham | Shrewsbury and Atcham |
| The Wrekin | Telford and Wrekin |
| Bridgwater and West Somerset | Sedgemoor |
| Somerton and Frome | South Somerset |
| Taunton Deane | Taunton Deane |
| Wells | Mendip |
| Yeovil | South Somerset |
| Filton and Bradley Stoke | South Gloucestershire |
| Thornbury and Yate | South Gloucestershire |
| Burton | East Staffordshire |
| Cannock Chase | Cannock Chase |
| Lichfield | Lichfield |
| South Staffordshire | South Staffordshire |
| Stafford | Stafford |
| Staffordshire Moorlands | Staffordshire Moorlands |
| Stone | Stafford |
| Tamworth | Tamworth |
| Bury St Edmunds | St Edmundsbury |
| Central Suffolk and North Ipswich | Mid Suffolk |
| South Suffolk | Babergh |
| Suffolk Coastal | Suffolk Coastal |
| Waveney | Waveney |
| West Suffolk | Forest Heath |
| East Surrey | Tandridge |
| Guildford | Guildford |
| Mole Valley | Mole Valley |
| Runnymede and Weybridge | Runnymede |
| South West Surrey | Waverley |
| Surrey Heath | Surrey Heath |
| Woking | Woking |
| North Swindon | Swindon |
| South Swindon | Swindon |
| Kenilworth and Southam | Warwick |
| North Warwickshire | North Warwickshire |
| Nuneaton | Nuneaton and Bedworth |
| Rugby | Rugby |
| Stratford-on-Avon | Stratford on Avon |
| Arundel and South Downs | Horsham |
| Bognor Regis and Littlehampton | Arun |
| Chichester | Chichester |
| East Worthing and Shoreham | Adur |
| Horsham | Horsham |
| Mid Sussex | Mid Sussex |
| Chippenham | North Wiltshire |
| Devizes | Kennet |
| North Wiltshire | North Wiltshire |
| Salisbury | Salisbury |
| South West Wiltshire | West Wiltshire |
| Bromsgrove | Bromsgrove |
| Mid Worcestershire | Wychavon |
| Redditch | Redditch |
| West Worcestershire | Malvern Hills |
| Wyre Forest | Wyre Forest |
| York Outer | York |
(This note is not part of the Order)
This Order makes provision for the designation of returning officers and acting returning officers in certain constituencies in England, in consequence of changes made to parliamentary constituency boundaries in England by the Parliamentary Constituencies (England) Order 2007 (S.I. 2007/1681).
The Order does not come fully into force until the next general parliamentary election is called.
Article 3 and Schedule 1 designates returning officers for borough constituencies, outside Greater London, that cross certain local authority boundaries.
Article 4 and Schedule 2 designates returning officers for borough constituencies, in Greater London, that cross London borough boundaries.
Article 6 and Schedule 3 designates the returning officers for county constituencies that cross county boundaries.
Article 7 and Schedule 4 designates acting returning officers for county constituencies.
Notes:
[1] 1983 c.2. Section 24(1)(c) was amended by paragraph 68(3) of Schedule 16 to the Local Government (Wales) Act 1994 (c.19). Section 24(1)(e) was amended by S.I. 2002/1057. Section 28(1)(b) was amended by paragraph 6 of Schedule 4 to the Representation of the People Act 1985 (c.50).back
[4] S.I. 1995/2061. This Order was also amended by S.I. 2002/1057.back
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