{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/borough-of-kettering-electoral-changes-order-1998/note",
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  "legislation": "uksi/1998/2508",
  "legislation_title": "The Borough of Kettering (Electoral Changes) Order 1998",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/borough-of-kettering-electoral-changes-order-1998",
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  "heading": "Explanatory note",
  "text": "(This note is not part of the Order)\nThis Order gives effect to recommendations by the Local Government Commission for England for electoral changes in the borough of Kettering.\nArticle 2 abolishes all of the existing wards of the borough and provides for the creation of 23 new wards. That article and the Schedule also make provision for the names and areas of, and numbers of councillors for, the new wards.\nArticle 3 provides for the creation of three new parish wards in the parish of Burton Latimer.\nArticle 4 provides for the creation of two new parish wards in the parish of Burton Desborough.\nArticle 5 provides for the creation of two new parish wards in the parish of Rothwell.\nThe areas of the new district and parish wards are demarcated on the map described in article 1(3). Prints of the map may be inspected at all reasonable times at the offices of Kettering Borough Council and at the offices of the Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions, which are located at 2nd Floor, Ashdown House, 123 Victoria Street, London SW1E 6DE.",
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  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1998/2508/note",
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  "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."
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