{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/borough-of-southend-on-sea-electoral-changes-order-2000/article-2",
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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/2",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Wards of the Borough of Southend-on-Sea",
  "text": "(1) The existing wards of the borough shall be abolished.\n(2) The borough shall be divided into seventeen wards which shall bear the names set out in the Schedule.\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.\n(4) The number of councillors to be elected for each ward shall be three.\n(5) 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 Southend-on-Sea (Electoral Arrangements) Order 1975 (S.I. 1975/1698)."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2000/1487/article/2",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T09:09:09.984744+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."
}