{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/county-of-dorset-electoral-changes-order-2004/article-3",
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  "legislation": "uksi/2004/3250",
  "legislation_title": "The County of Dorset (Electoral Changes) Order 2004",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/county-of-dorset-electoral-changes-order-2004",
  "path": "article/3",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "3",
  "heading": "Electoral divisions of the county of Dorset",
  "text": "(1) The existing electoral divisions of the county shall be abolished.\n(2) The county shall be divided into forty-two electoral divisions which shall bear the names set out in column (1) of Schedule 1.\n(3) The electoral divisions shall comprise the areas described in column (2) of that 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 that 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 Dorset (Electoral Arrangements) Order 1983 (S.I. 1983/830). The area of the county of Dorset was altered by the Berkshire, Dorset and Wiltshire (County Boundaries) Order 1989 (S.I. 1989/1213), the Dorset and Somerset (County Boundaries) Order 1991 (S.I. 1991/286), the Dorset, Hampshire, West Sussex and Wiltshire (County Boundaries) Order 1991 (S.I. 1991/2247), and the Dorset (Boroughs of Poole and Bournemouth) (Structural Change) Order 1995 (S.I. 1995/1771)."
    }
  ],
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  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2004/3250/article/3",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T05:13:43.989906+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."
}