{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/city-of-gloucester-electoral-changes-order-2001/article-2",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/city-of-gloucester-electoral-changes-order-2001/article-2.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2001/3884",
  "legislation_title": "The City of Gloucester (Electoral Changes) Order 2001",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/city-of-gloucester-electoral-changes-order-2001",
  "path": "article/2",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Wards of the city of Gloucester",
  "text": "(1) The existing wards of the city shall be abolished.\n(2) The city shall be divided into fifteen wards which shall bear the names set out in column (1) of Schedule 1.\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 the number specified in respect of the ward in column (2) of that Schedule.\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 Gloucester (Electoral Arrangements) Order 1976 (S.I. 1976/1967) as amended by the Gloucestershire Districts (Electoral Arrangements) Order 1991 (S.I. 1991/793) and the City of Gloucester (Electoral Changes) Order 1997 (S.I. 1997/157)."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2001/3884/article/2",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T07:20:25.934483+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."
}