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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/borough-of-southend-on-sea-electoral-changes-order-2000/article-1",
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  "legislation": "uksi/2000/1487",
  "legislation_title": "The Borough of Southend-on-Sea (Electoral Changes) Order 2000",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/borough-of-southend-on-sea-electoral-changes-order-2000",
  "path": "article/1",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "1",
  "heading": "Citation, commencement and interpretation",
  "text": "(1) This Order may be cited as the Borough of Southend-on-Sea (Electoral Changes) Order 2000.\n(2) This article and articles 2, 3 and 5 shall come into force—\n(a) for the purpose of proceedings preliminary or relating to any election to be held on 3rd May 2001, on 10th October 2000;\n(b) for all other purposes, on 3rd May 2001.\n(3) Article 4 shall come into force—\n(a) for the purpose of proceedings preliminary or relating to any election of a parish councillor for the parish of Leigh-on-Sea to be held on 1st May 2003, on 10th October 2002;\n(b) for all other purposes, on 1st May 2003.\n(4) In this Order—\n“borough” means the borough of Southend-on-Sea;\n“existing”, in relation to a ward, means the ward as it exists on the date this Order is made;\nany reference to the map is a reference to the map prepared by the Department of the Environment, Transport and the Regions marked “Map of the Borough of Southend-on-Sea (Electoral Changes) Order 2000”, and deposited in accordance with regulation 27 of the Local Government Changes for England Regulations 1994; and\nany reference to a numbered sheet is a reference to the sheet of the map which bears that number.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "S.I. 1994/867, to which there are amendments not relevant to this Order."
    }
  ],
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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."
}