{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/borough-of-chelmsford-electoral-arrangements-order-1987/article-3",
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  "legislation": "uksi/1987/483",
  "legislation_title": "The Borough of Chelmsford (Electoral Arrangements) Order 1987",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/borough-of-chelmsford-electoral-arrangements-order-1987",
  "path": "article/3",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "3",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "(1) The existing wards of the Borough of Chelmsford shall be abolished and that borough shall be divided into twenty-seven wards which shall bear the names set out in column 1 of Schedule 1 to this Order, and each such ward shall comprise the areas specified in column 2 of that Schedule opposite to the name of the ward as given in column 1, which areas are either existing areas or, where areas are described by reference to a parish or ward of a parish, those parishes and wards of parishes as they will be constituted on 1st April 1987 when Articles 4, 7, 8 and 10 of the Chelmsford (Parishes) Order 1987 come into full force.\n(2) The number of councillors to be elected for each ward constituted by paragraph (1) above shall be the number specified in column 2 of Schedule 2 to this Order opposite to the name of the ward as given in column 1 of that Schedule.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "S.I. 1987/478."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1987/483/article/3",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T16:29:22.330210+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."
}