{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/county-of-hampshire-electoral-changes-order-2004/article-2",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/county-of-hampshire-electoral-changes-order-2004/article-2.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2004/3248",
  "legislation_title": "The County of Hampshire (Electoral Changes) Order 2004",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/county-of-hampshire-electoral-changes-order-2004",
  "path": "article/2",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Interpretation",
  "text": "In this Order –\n“county” means the county of Hampshire;\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 Hampshire (Electoral Changes) Order 2004”, of which prints are available for inspection at –\n(a) the principal office of the Electoral Commission; and\n(b) the offices of Hampshire 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 Borough of Basingstoke and Deane (Electoral Changes) Order 2001 (S.I. 2001/1019) as amended by the Borough of Basingstoke and Deane (Electoral Changes) (Amendment) Order 2004 (S.I. 2004/3106), the District of East Hampshire (Electoral Changes) Order 2001 (S.I. 2001/1017), the Borough of Eastleigh (Electoral Changes) Order 2001 (S.I. 2001/1021), the Borough of Fareham (Electoral Changes) Order 2001 (S.I. 2001/1020), the Borough of Gosport (Electoral Changes) Order 2001 (S.I. 2001/1022), the District of Hart (Electoral Changes) Order 2001 (S.I. 2001/1023), the Borough of Havant (Electoral Changes) Order 2001 (S.I. 2001/1025), the District of New Forest (Electoral Changes) Order 2001 (S.I. 2001/1026), the Borough of Rushmoor (Electoral Changes) Order 2001 (S.I. 2001/1016), the Borough of Test Valley (Electoral Changes) Order 2001 (S.I. 2001/1018), and the City of Winchester (Electoral Changes) Order 2001 (S.I. 2001/1028)."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2004/3248/article/2",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T05:13:45.543341+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."
}