{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/borough-of-redditch-electoral-changes-order-2002/article-3",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/borough-of-redditch-electoral-changes-order-2002/article-3.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2002/2986",
  "legislation_title": "The Borough of Redditch (Electoral Changes) Order 2002",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/borough-of-redditch-electoral-changes-order-2002",
  "path": "article/3",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "3",
  "heading": "Wards of the borough of Redditch",
  "text": "(1) The existing wards of the borough shall be abolished.\n(2) The borough shall be divided into twelve wards which shall bear the names set out in column (1) of Schedule 1.\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; 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(4) Where a boundary is shown on the map as running along a road, railway line, footway, watercourse or 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 District of Redditch (Electoral Arrangements) Order 1980 (S.I. 1980/231) as amended by the Hereford and Worcester and Warwickshire (County Boundaries) Order 1993 (S.I. 1993/272)."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2002/2986/article/3",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T06:38:48.737208+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."
}