{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/borough-of-blackburn-with-darwen-electoral-changes-order-2002/article-3",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/borough-of-blackburn-with-darwen-electoral-changes-order-2002/article-3.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2002/3223",
  "legislation_title": "The Borough of Blackburn with Darwen (Electoral Changes) Order 2002",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/borough-of-blackburn-with-darwen-electoral-changes-order-2002",
  "path": "article/3",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "3",
  "heading": "Wards of the borough of Blackburn with Darwen",
  "text": "(1) The existing wards of the borough shall be abolished.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "See the Borough of Blackburn (Parishes and Electoral Changes) Order 1997 (S.I. 1997/782). The name of the borough was changed from Blackburn to Blackburn with Darwen with effect from 2nd May 1997 by a resolution the council passed under section 74 of the Local Government Act 1972 (c. 70) on 9th January 1997."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2002/3223/article/3",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T06:34:51.771580+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."
}