{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/berkshire-buckinghamshire-and-surrey-county-boundaries-order-1994/article-2",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/berkshire-buckinghamshire-and-surrey-county-boundaries-order-1994/article-2.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1994/330",
  "legislation_title": "The Berkshire, Buckinghamshire and Surrey (County Boundaries) Order 1994",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/berkshire-buckinghamshire-and-surrey-county-boundaries-order-1994",
  "path": "article/2",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Interpretation",
  "text": "In this Order—\n“Berkshire” means the county of Berkshire, and any reference to Slough is a reference to the Berkshire borough of that name;\n“Buckinghamshire” means the county of Buckinghamshire, and any reference to South Bucks is a reference to the district of that name in that county;\n“Surrey” means the County of Surrey, and any reference to Spelthorne is a reference to the Surrey borough of that name;\n“electoral division” means an electoral division of Berkshire or Buckinghamshire;\n“the map” means the map prepared by the Department of the Environment, marked “Map of the Berkshire, Buckinghamshire and Surrey (County Boundaries) Order 1994”, and deposited in accordance with regulation 5 of the Loal Government Area Changes Regulations 1976;\n“new parish” means the new Berkshire parish of Colnbrook with Poyle; and any reference to an area as unparished is a reference to that area not forming part of any parish; and\n“ward” means a ward of a borough or district except in the expression “parish ward”, where it means a ward of a parish.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "Every non-metropolitan county is divided into electoral divisions for the purposes of the election of county councillors (section 6(2)(a) of the Local Government Act 1972)."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "Every district (whether metropolitan or non-metropolitan) is divided into wards for the purposes of the election of district councillors (sections 6(2)(b) and of the Local Government Act 1972)."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1994/330/article/2",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T13:41:09.314849+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."
}