{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/anglian-water-authority-littleport-and-downham-internal-drainage-district-order-1987/schedule-1/paragraph-4",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/anglian-water-authority-littleport-and-downham-internal-drainage-district-order-1987/schedule-1/paragraph-4.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1987/815",
  "legislation_title": "The Anglian Water Authority (Littleport and Downham Internal Drainage District) Order 1987",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/anglian-water-authority-littleport-and-downham-internal-drainage-district-order-1987",
  "path": "schedule/1/paragraph/4",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "4",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "(i) The Internal Drainage Board shall consist of nineteen members who, with the exception of the first members, shall be elected in accordance with the provisions of section 7 of, and Schedule 2 to, the Land Drainage Act 1976.\n(ii) The first members of the Internal Drainage Board shall be persons appointed by the Minister and shall hold office until the expiration of one year from the first day of November next following the day on which they are appointed.\n(iii) For the purposes of such election the Internal Drainage District shall be divided into three electoral districts as follows:—\n(a) the first electoral district shall consist of the lands within the first electoral district of the Littleport and Downham Internal Drainage District immediately before the appointed day and shall elect fifteen members to the Internal Drainage Board;\n(b) the second electoral district shall consist of the lands within the second electoral district of the Littleport and Downham Internal Drainage District immediately before the appointed day and shall elect two members to the Internal Drainage Board;\n(c) the third electoral district shall consist of the lands within the Little Thetford Internal Drainage District immediately before the appointed day and shall elect two members to the Internal Drainage Board.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1987/815/schedule/1/paragraph/4",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T16:27:07.877843+00:00"
  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}