{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/county-of-durham-electoral-changes-order-2005/article-2",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/county-of-durham-electoral-changes-order-2005/article-2.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2005/176",
  "legislation_title": "The County of Durham (Electoral Changes) Order 2005",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/county-of-durham-electoral-changes-order-2005",
  "path": "article/2",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Interpretation",
  "text": "In this Order –\n“county” means the county of Durham;\n“existing”, in relation to an electoral division or ward, means the electoral division or ward as it exists on the date this Order is made;\nreferences to wards, unless the context otherwise requires, are references to district, borough and city wards in the county;\nany reference to the map is a reference to the map marked “Map referred to in the County of Durham (Electoral Changes) Order 2005”, of which prints are available for inspection at –\n(a) the principal office of the Electoral Commission; and\n(b) the offices of Durham County Council; and\nany reference to a numbered sheet is a reference to the sheet of the map which bears that number.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "See the District of Chester-le-Street (Electoral Changes) Order 1999 (S.I. 1999/2503), the District of Derwentside (Electoral Changes) Order 1999 (S.I. 1999/2580), the City of Durham (Electoral Changes) Order 1999 (S.I. 1999/2579), the District of Easington (Electoral Changes) Order 1999 (S.I. 1999/2581), the Borough of Sedgefield (Electoral Changes) Order 1999 (S.I. 1999/2582), the District of Teesdale (Electoral Changes) Order 1999 (S.I. 1999/2583) and the District of Wear Valley (Electoral Changes) Order 1999 (S.I. 1999/2584)."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2005/176/article/2",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T05:11:05.372267+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."
}