{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/borough-of-south-ribble-electoral-arrangements-order-1987/article-3",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/borough-of-south-ribble-electoral-arrangements-order-1987/article-3.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1987/484",
  "legislation_title": "The Borough of South Ribble (Electoral Arrangements) Order 1987",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/borough-of-south-ribble-electoral-arrangements-order-1987",
  "path": "article/3",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "3",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "(1) The existing wards of the Borough of South Ribble shall be abolished and that borough shall be divided into twenty-two wards which shall bear the names set out in column 1 of Schedule 1 to this Order, and each such ward shall comprise the areas specified in column 2 of that Schedule opposite to the name of the ward as given in column 1, which areas are as they will be constituted on 1st April 1987 when Articles 4, 5 and 6 of the South Ribble (Parishes) Order 1987 and Articles 4 and 5 of the Lancashire (District Boundaries) Order 1986 come into force.\n(2) The number of councillors to be elected for each ward constituted by paragraph (1) above shall be the number specified in column 2 of Schedule 2 to this Order opposite to the name of the ward as given in column 1 of that Schedule.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "S.I. 1987/479."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "S.I. 1986/1909."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1987/484/article/3",
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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."
}