{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/city-of-lincoln-electoral-changes-order-1998/article-2",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/city-of-lincoln-electoral-changes-order-1998/article-2.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1998/2334",
  "legislation_title": "The City of Lincoln (Electoral Changes) Order 1998",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/city-of-lincoln-electoral-changes-order-1998",
  "path": "article/2",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Wards of Lincoln and number of councillors",
  "text": "(1) The existing wards of the city shall be abolished.\n(2) The city shall be divided into eleven wards which shall bear the names set out in 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.\n(4) The number of councillors to be elected for each ward shall be three.\n(5) Where a boundary is shown on the map as running along a road, railway line, footway, waterway or other 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 Lincoln (Electoral Arrangements) Order 1978 (S.I. 1978/1750)."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "rev",
      "affecting": "uksi/2006/3110",
      "affecting_title": "The City of Lincoln (Electoral Changes) Order 2006"
    }
  ],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1998/2334/article/2",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T11:18:21.305879+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."
}