{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/borough-of-northampton-electoral-changes-order-1998/article-2",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/borough-of-northampton-electoral-changes-order-1998/article-2.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1998/2511",
  "legislation_title": "The Borough of Northampton (Electoral Changes) Order 1998",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/borough-of-northampton-electoral-changes-order-1998",
  "path": "article/2",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Wards of Northampton",
  "text": "(1) The existing wards of the borough shall be abolished.\n(2) The borough shall be divided into twenty-three wards which shall bear the names set out in column (1) of Schedule 1 and the number of councillors to be elected for each ward shall be the number specified in respect of the ward in column (2) of that Schedule.\n(3) The wards shall comprise the areas designated on the map by reference to the name of the ward and demarcated by red lines.\n(4) Where a boundary is shown on the map as running along a road, railway line, footway, waterway or other similar geographical feature, it shall be treated as running along the centre line of the feature.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "See The Borough of Northampton (Electoral Arrangements) Order 1978 (S.I. 1978/1664)."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1998/2511/article/2",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T11:17:26.930164+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."
}