{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/borough-of-sefton-electoral-changes-order-1999/article-2",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/borough-of-sefton-electoral-changes-order-1999/article-2.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1999/2782",
  "legislation_title": "The Borough of Sefton (Electoral Changes) Order 1999",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/borough-of-sefton-electoral-changes-order-1999",
  "path": "article/2",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Wards of Sefton",
  "text": "(1) The existing wards of the borough shall be abolished.\n(2) The borough shall be divided into twenty-two wards which shall bear the names set out in column (1) of the Schedule.\n(3) The wards shall comprise the areas described in column (2) of the Schedule by reference to parish wards or, where no area is so described, the area 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 three.\n(4) Where a boundary is shown on the map as running along a road, railway line, footway, waterway 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 Borough of Sefton (Electoral Arrangements) Order 1978 (S.I. 1978/1863)."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1999/2782/article/2",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T09:47:01.642437+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."
}