{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/county-of-east-sussex-electoral-changes-order-2004/article-3",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/county-of-east-sussex-electoral-changes-order-2004/article-3.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2004/3247",
  "legislation_title": "The County of East Sussex (Electoral Changes) Order 2004",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/county-of-east-sussex-electoral-changes-order-2004",
  "path": "article/3",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "3",
  "heading": "Electoral divisions of the county of East Sussex",
  "text": "(1) The existing electoral divisions of the county shall be abolished.\n(2) The county shall be divided into forty-four 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 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 East Sussex (Electoral Arrangements) Order 1982 (S.I. 1982/535). The area of the county of East Sussex was altered by the East Sussex, West Sussex and Kent (County Boundaries) Order 1992 (S.I. 1992/2096), the Kent and East Sussex (County Boundaries) Order 1993 (S.I. 1993/1742), and the East Sussex (Boroughs of Brighton and Hove) (Structural Change) Order 1995 (S.I. 1995/1770)."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2004/3247/article/3",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T05:13:46.302614+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."
}