{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/county-of-gloucestershire-electoral-changes-order-2004/article-3",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/county-of-gloucestershire-electoral-changes-order-2004/article-3.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2004/2814",
  "legislation_title": "The County of Gloucestershire (Electoral Changes) Order 2004",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/county-of-gloucestershire-electoral-changes-order-2004",
  "path": "article/3",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "3",
  "heading": "Electoral divisions of the county of Gloucestershire",
  "text": "(1) The existing electoral divisions of the county shall be abolished.\n(2) The county shall be divided into fifty-three 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 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 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 Gloucestershire (Electoral Arrangements) Order 1983 (S.I. 1983/829) and the Gloucestershire Districts (Electoral Arrangements) Order 1991 (S.I. 1991/793). The area of the county of Gloucestershire was altered by the Gloucestershire and Wiltshire (County Boundaries) Order 1990 (S.I. 1990/170), the Avon and Gloucestershire (County Boundaries) Order 1991 (S.I. 1991/271), and the Avon (Structural Change) Order 1995 (S.I. 1995/493)."
    }
  ],
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  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2004/2814/article/3",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T05:16:17.468143+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."
}