{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/city-of-manchester-electoral-changes-order-2004/article-3",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/city-of-manchester-electoral-changes-order-2004/article-3.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2004/359",
  "legislation_title": "The City of Manchester (Electoral Changes) Order 2004",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/city-of-manchester-electoral-changes-order-2004",
  "path": "article/3",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "3",
  "heading": "Wards of the city of Manchester",
  "text": "(1) The existing wards of the city shall be abolished.\n(2) The city shall be divided into thirty-two wards which shall bear the names set out in the Schedule.\n(3) Each ward shall comprise the area 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 Manchester (Electoral Arrangements) Order 1981 (S.I. 1981/284)."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2004/359/article/3",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T05:33:11.832538+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."
}