{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/city-of-derby-electoral-changes-order-2001/article-2",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/city-of-derby-electoral-changes-order-2001/article-2.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2001/3482",
  "legislation_title": "The City of Derby (Electoral Changes) Order 2001",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/city-of-derby-electoral-changes-order-2001",
  "path": "article/2",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Wards of the city of Derby",
  "text": "(1) The existing wards of the city shall be abolished.\n(2) The city shall be divided into seventeen wards which shall bear the names set out in column (1) of 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 three.\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 City of Derby (Electoral Arrangements) Order 1978 (S.I. 1978/1613) and article 9 of the Derbyshire (City of Derby) (Structural Change) Order (S.I. 1995/1773)."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2001/3482/article/2",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T07:26:49.003033+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."
}