{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/county-of-cumbria-electoral-changes-order-2000/article-1",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/county-of-cumbria-electoral-changes-order-2000/article-1.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2000/2485",
  "legislation_title": "The County of Cumbria (Electoral Changes) Order 2000",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/county-of-cumbria-electoral-changes-order-2000",
  "path": "article/1",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "1",
  "heading": "Citation, commencement and interpretation",
  "text": "(1) This Order may be cited as the County of Cumbria (Electoral Changes) Order 2000.\n(2) This Order shall come into force—\n(a) for the purpose of proceedings preliminary or relating to any election to be held on 3rd May 2001, on 10th October 2000;\n(b) for all other purposes, on 3rd May 2001.\n(3) In this Order—\n“county” means the county of Cumbria;\n“existing”, in relation to a division or ward, means the division or ward as it exists on the date this Order is made;\nreferences to wards, unless the context otherwise requires, are references to borough, city and district wards in the county; and\nany reference to the map is a reference to the map prepared by the Department of the Environment, Transport and the Regions marked “Map of the County of Cumbria (Electoral Changes) Order 2000”, and deposited in accordance with regulation 27 of the Local Government Changes for England Regulations 1994.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "See the Borough of Allerdale (Electoral Changes) Order 1998 (S.I. 1998/2569), the Borough of Barrow-in-Furness (Electoral Changes) Order 1998 (S.I. 1998/2571), the City of Carlisle (Electoral Changes) Order 1998 (S.I. 1998/2549), the Borough of Copeland (Electoral Changes) Order 1998 (S.I. 1998/2570), the District of Eden (Electoral Changes) Order 1998 (S.I. 1998/2547) and the District of South Lakeland (Electoral Changes) Order 1998 (S.I. 1998/2548)."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "S.I. 1994/867, to which there are amendments not relevant to this Order."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2000/2485/article/1",
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  },
  "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."
}