{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/city-of-gloucester-electoral-changes-order-1997/article-3",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/city-of-gloucester-electoral-changes-order-1997/article-3.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1997/157",
  "legislation_title": "The City of Gloucester (Electoral Changes) Order 1997",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/city-of-gloucester-electoral-changes-order-1997",
  "path": "article/3",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "3",
  "heading": "Electoral changes: Quedgeley ward",
  "text": "(1) On and after 7th May 1998 the number of councillors to be elected for the Quedgeley ward shall be increased from two to three; elections of two councillors for the Quedgeley ward shall be held on 7th May 1998, and the councillors then elected shall come into office on 11th May 1998.\n(2) Subject to article 4(1) and (2), of the councillors elected for the Quedgeley ward on 7th May 1998—\n(a) the councillor elected by the smaller number of votes shall retire in 2000; and\n(b) the other shall retire in 2002.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "See article 5(5) of the Gloucestershire Districts (Electoral Arrangements) Order 1991 (S.I. 1991/793) in relation to the creation of the Quedgeley ward."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1997/157/article/3",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T12:27:11.140597+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."
}