{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/cheshire-greater-manchester-lancashire-and-merseyside-county-and-district-boundaries-order-1993/article-5",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/cheshire-greater-manchester-lancashire-and-merseyside-county-and-district-boundaries-order-1993/article-5.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1993/436",
  "legislation_title": "The Cheshire, Greater Manchester, Lancashire and Merseyside (County and District Boundaries) Order 1993",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/cheshire-greater-manchester-lancashire-and-merseyside-county-and-district-boundaries-order-1993",
  "path": "article/5",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "5",
  "heading": "Transfers between Greater Manchester (Wigan) and Merseyside (St Helens)",
  "text": "(1) Each unparished area which is marked as shown in column 1 of the following Table on the map indicated in column 2 shall be transferred from Greater Manchester, from Wigan, and from the ward named in column 3 to Merseyside, to St Helens, to the parish (if any) and the ward mentioned in column 4, and to the St Helens petty sessional division and the Knowsley, St Helens and Sefton coroner’s district.\nTABLE\n1\n2\n3\n4\nArea marked\nOn map–\nTransferred from Greater Manchester, from Wigan and from the following ward–\nTo Merseyside, to St Helens, and to–\nB\n6\nLightshaw\nHaydock ward\nA, C & D\n5\nLightshaw\nNewton East ward\nA & E\n7\nOrrell\nParish of Billinge Chapel End\nB\n8\nBillinge and Seneley Green ward\nA\n8\nOrrell\nParish of Rainford\nCrank parish ward\nRainford ward\n(2) Each area which is marked as shown in column 1 of the following Table on the map indicated in column 2 shall be transferred from Merseyside, from St Helens, and from the parish (or, where unparished, from the ward) named in column 3 to–\n(a) Greater Manchester;\n(b) Wigan;\n(c) the ward and petty sessional division named in column 4; and to\n(d) the Greater Manchester West coroner’s district–\nand shall become or remain unparished.\nTABLE\n1\n2\n3\n4\nArea marked–\nOn map\nTransferred from Merseyside, from St Helens and from–\nTo Greater Manchester, to Wigan, and to the following–\nC\n7 & 8\nParish of Billinge\nOrrell ward\nF\n7\nChapel End\nMakerfield petty sessional division\nB\n7\nParish of Seneley Green\nOrrell ward\nMakerfield petty sessional division\nA\n6\nHaydock ward\nAshton–Golborne ward\nMakerfield petty sessional division\nB\n5\nNewton East ward\nLightshaw ward\nLeigh petty sessional division",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1993/436/article/5",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T14:03:59.651411+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."
}