{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/borough-of-torbay-electoral-changes-order-2002/article-3",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/borough-of-torbay-electoral-changes-order-2002/article-3.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2002/1786",
  "legislation_title": "The Borough of Torbay (Electoral Changes) Order 2002",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/borough-of-torbay-electoral-changes-order-2002",
  "path": "article/3",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "3",
  "heading": "Wards of the Borough of Torbay",
  "text": "(1) The existing wards of the borough shall be abolished.\n(2) The borough shall be divided into fifteen 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; and the number of councillors to be elected for each ward shall be the number specified in respect of the ward in column (2) of the Schedule.\n(4) 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 Torbay (Electoral Arrangements) Order 1979 (S.I. 1979/1496), the Borough of Torbay (Electoral Arrangements) Order 1987 (S.I. 1987/1626), and the Devon (City of Plymouth and Borough of Torbay) (Structural Change) Order 1996 (S.I. 1996/1865)."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2002/1786/article/3",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T06:53:02.036261+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."
}