{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/county-of-cambridgeshire-electoral-changes-order-2005/article-3",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/county-of-cambridgeshire-electoral-changes-order-2005/article-3.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2005/167",
  "legislation_title": "The County of Cambridgeshire (Electoral Changes) Order 2005",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/county-of-cambridgeshire-electoral-changes-order-2005",
  "path": "article/3",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "3",
  "heading": "Electoral divisions of the county of Cambridgeshire",
  "text": "(1) The existing electoral divisions of the county shall be abolished.\n(2) The county shall be divided into sixty electoral divisions which shall bear the names set out in column (1) of the Schedule.\n(3) The electoral divisions shall comprise the areas described in column (2) of the Schedule by reference to wards, parishes, or parish wards or, where an area is not so described, the area designated on the map by reference to the name of the electoral division and demarcated by red lines; and the number of councillors to be elected for each electoral division shall be the number specified in respect of the electoral division in column (3) of the 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 County of Cambridgeshire (Electoral Arrangements) Order 1984 (S.I. 1984/1944). The area of the county of Cambridgeshire was altered by the Cambridgeshire, Essex, Hertfordshire and Lincolnshire (County Boundaries) Order 1989 (S.I. 1989/133), the Cambridgeshire, Norfolk and Suffolk (County Boundaries) Order 1990 (S.I. 1990/228), the Bedfordshire, Buckinghamshire and Cambridgeshire (County Boundaries) Order 1991 (S.I. 1991/282), the Cambridgeshire and Suffolk (County Boundaries) Order 1992 (S.I. 1992/3026) and the Cambridgeshire (City of Peterborough) (Structural, Boundary and Electoral Changes) Order 1996 (S.I. 1996/1878)."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2005/167/article/3",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T05:11:12.099421+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."
}