{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/borough-of-sefton-electoral-changes-order-2003/article-3",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/borough-of-sefton-electoral-changes-order-2003/article-3.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2003/1977",
  "legislation_title": "The Borough of Sefton (Electoral Changes) Order 2003",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/borough-of-sefton-electoral-changes-order-2003",
  "path": "article/3",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "3",
  "heading": "Wards of the borough 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) Each ward shall comprise 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, 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 Borough of Sefton (Electoral Changes) Order 1999 (S.I. 1999/2782)."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2003/1977/article/3",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T06:12:05.837285+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."
}