{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/borough-of-stevenage-electoral-changes-order-1998/article-2",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/borough-of-stevenage-electoral-changes-order-1998/article-2.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1998/2557",
  "legislation_title": "The Borough of Stevenage (Electoral Changes) Order 1998",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/borough-of-stevenage-electoral-changes-order-1998",
  "path": "article/2",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Wards of Stevenage",
  "text": "(1) The existing wards of the borough shall be abolished.\n(2) The borough shall be divided into thirteen 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, waterway or other 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 Stevenage (Electoral Arrangements) Order 1976 (S.I. 1977/1548)."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1998/2557/article/2",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T11:17:05.213264+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."
}