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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/borough-of-oadby-and-wigston-electoral-changes-order-2002/note",
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  "legislation": "uksi/2002/2889",
  "legislation_title": "The Borough of Oadby and Wigston (Electoral Changes) Order 2002",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/borough-of-oadby-and-wigston-electoral-changes-order-2002",
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  "heading": "Explanatory note",
  "text": "(This note is not part of the Order)\nThis Order gives effect, with one modification, to recommendations by the Boundary Committee for England, a committee of the Electoral Commission, for electoral changes in the borough of Oadby and Wigston.\nThe modification concerns the name of the Wigston Fields borough ward.\nThe changes have effect in relation to local government elections to be held on and after 1st May 2003.\nArticle 3 abolishes the existing wards of the borough and provides for the creation of 10 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 5 obliges the Electoral Registration Officer to make any necessary amendments to the electoral register to reflect the new electoral arrangements.\nArticle 6 revokes the Borough of Oadby and Wigston (Electoral Arrangements) Order 1977 (S.I. 1977/723).\nThe areas of the new borough wards are demarcated on the map described in article 2. Prints of the map may be inspected at all reasonable times at the offices of Oadby and Wigston Borough Council and at the principal office of the Electoral Commission at Trevelyan House, Great Peter Street, London SW1P 2HW.",
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  "version": "current",
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2002/2889/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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