{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/cheshire-lancashire-and-merseyside-county-and-metropolitan-borough-boundaries-order-1993/article-2",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/cheshire-lancashire-and-merseyside-county-and-metropolitan-borough-boundaries-order-1993/article-2.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1993/691",
  "legislation_title": "The Cheshire, Lancashire and Merseyside (County and Metropolitan Borough Boundaries) Order 1993",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/cheshire-lancashire-and-merseyside-county-and-metropolitan-borough-boundaries-order-1993",
  "path": "article/2",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Interpretation",
  "text": "In this Order—\n“Cheshire” means the county of Cheshire, and any reference to Halton is a reference to the Cheshire borough of that name;\n“district” includes a borough, a metropolitan borough and a city;\n“electoral division” means an electoral division of the county to which an area is transferred by this Order;\n“Lancashire” means the county of Lancashire, except in the expression “West Lancashire”, where it means the Lancashire district of West Lancashire;\n“the map” means one or more of the 17 maps prepared by the Department of the Environment, marked “Maps of the Cheshire, Lancashire and Merseyside (County and Metropolitan Borough Boundaries) Order 1993”, and deposited in accordance with regulation 5 of the Local Government Areas Changes Regulations 1976;\n“Merseyside” means the metropolitan county of Merseyside, and any reference to Knowsley, to Liverpool, to St.Helens or to Sefton is a reference to the district of that name in that county;\n“the abolished parish” means the Knowsley parish of Simonswood (abolished by article 4), “new parish” means the new Lancashire parish of Simonswood (created by article 5), and\n“new parish council” means the parish council for the new parish; any reference to an area as unparished is a reference to that area not forming part of any parish; and\n“ward” means a ward of the district from or to which an area is transferred, except in article 5(6), where it means a ward of Knowsley, and in the expression “parish ward”, where it means a ward of the parish to which an area is transferred.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "Every non-metropolitan county is divided into electoral divisions for the purposes of the election of county councillors (section 6(2)(a) of the Local Government Act 1972)."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "Every district (whether metropolitan or non-metropolitan) is divided into wards for the purposes of the election of district councillors (sections 6(2)(b) and"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1993/691/article/2",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T14:01:32.877220+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."
}