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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/city-of-brighton-and-hove-electoral-changes-order-2001/note",
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  "legislation": "uksi/2001/4055",
  "legislation_title": "The City of Brighton and Hove (Electoral Changes) Order 2001",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/city-of-brighton-and-hove-electoral-changes-order-2001",
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  "heading": "Explanatory note",
  "text": "(This note is not part of the Order)\nThis Order gives effect to recommendations by the Local Government Commission for England for electoral changes in the city of Brighton and Hove. The changes have effect in relation to local government elections to be held on and after 1st May 2003.\nArticle 2 abolishes the existing wards of the city and provides for the creation of 21 new wards. That article and the Schedule also make provision for the names and numbers of councillors for the new wards.\nArticle 3 provides for the election of all councillors of the city of Brighton and Hove to take place in 2003 and every 4 years after that year.\nArticle 4 revokes the Borough of Brighton (Electoral Arrangements) Order 1980, the Borough of Hove (Electoral Arrangements) Order 1978 and article 11 of the East Sussex (Boroughs of Brighton and Hove) (Structural Change) Order 1995.\nThe areas of the new city wards are demarcated on the map described in article 1(3). Prints of the map may be inspected at all reasonable times at the offices of Brighton and Hove Council and at the offices of the Secretary of State for Transport, Local Government and the Regions, 2nd Floor, Ashdown House, 123 Victoria Street, London SW1E 6DE.",
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  "version": "current",
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2001/4055/note",
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  "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."
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