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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/borough-of-southend-on-sea-electoral-changes-order-2000/note",
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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",
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  "heading": "Explanatory note",
  "text": "(This note is not part of the Order)\nThis Order gives effect to recommendations by the Local Government Commission for England for electoral changes in the borough of Southend-on-Sea. It has effect in relation to the election of borough councillors at elections on and after 3rd May 2001.\nArticle 2 abolishes the existing wards of the borough and provides for the creation of seventeen new wards. That article and the Schedule also make provision for the names and areas of, and numbers of councillors for, the new wards.\nArticle 3 makes provision for a whole council election in 2001 and for reversion to elections by thirds in subsequent years.\nArticle 4 makes electoral changes in the parish of Leigh-on-Sea with effect from the parish elections to be held on 1st May 2003.\nArticle 5 revokes the Borough of Southend-on-Sea (Electoral Arrangements) Order 1975 and article 7 of the Essex (Boroughs of Colchester, Southend-on-Sea and Thurrock and District of Tendring) (Structural, Boundary and Electoral Changes) Order 1996.\nThe areas of the new borough wards are demarcated on the map described in article 1(4). Prints of the map may be inspected at all reasonable times at the offices of Southend-on-Sea Borough Council and at the offices of the Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions, 2nd Floor, Ashdown House, 123 Victoria Street, London SW1E 6DE.",
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  "version": "current",
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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."
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