{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/cheshire-and-merseyside-county-boundaries-order-1992/article-2",
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  "legislation": "uksi/1992/1992",
  "legislation_title": "The Cheshire and Merseyside (County Boundaries) Order 1992",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/cheshire-and-merseyside-county-boundaries-order-1992",
  "path": "article/2",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Interpretation",
  "text": "In this Order—\n“Cheshire” means the county of Cheshire,\nand “Ellesmere Port” means the borough of Ellesmere Port and Neston in that county;\n“electoral division” means an electoral division of Cheshire;\n“the map” means one of the 3 maps prepared by the Department of the Environment, marked “Maps of the Cheshire and Merseyside (County Boundaries) Order 1992”, and deposited in accordance with regulation 5 of the Local Government Area Changes Regulations 1976;\n“Merseyside” means the metropolitan county of Merseyside, and\n“Wirral” means the metropolitan borough of Wirral in that county; and\n“ward” means a ward of the borough or metropolitan borough from or to which an area is transferred.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1992/1992/article/2",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T14:17:18.940562+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."
}