{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/county-of-cumbria-electoral-changes-order-2000/article-2",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/county-of-cumbria-electoral-changes-order-2000/article-2.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/2",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Divisions of the county of Cumbria",
  "text": "(1) The existing divisions of the county shall be abolished.\n(2) The county shall be divided into eighty-four divisions which shall bear the names set out in column (1) of the Schedule.\n(3) The divisions shall comprise—\n(a) the areas described in column (2) of the Schedule by reference to—\n(i) wards;\n(ii) wards and parishes;\n(iii) wards, parishes and parish wards;\n(iv) wards and parish wards;\n(v) parishes and parish wards; or\n(vi) parish wards; and\n(b) the areas designated on the map by reference to the name of the division and demarcated by red lines, where not described as mentioned in sub-paragraph (a) above.\n(4) The number of councillors to be elected for each division shall be one.\n(5) 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 Cumbria (Electoral Arrangements) Order 1981 (S.I. 1981/79)."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2000/2485/article/2",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T08:23:26.812749+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."
}